In today's Gospel, John 3: 7b-15, we read: "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, he Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." Who, we might ask, believes in him and therefore is destined for eternal life? The answer to that question might be what was said in the beginning of this passage: "The wind blows where it wills," the wind of the Spirit, that is! But, John tells us, we "do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." We are born of the Spirit of God when we are baptized. The majority of us did not choose baptism; it was chosen for us by our parents or our guardians! A coincidence? Or a providence of God? And in our baptism, the Holy Spirit was poured out upon us in the anointing that is part of the sacrament of baptism. We did not see where the Spirit came from nor did we see the Spirit Herself/Himself enter into us. In faith, though, we believe! And where did our faith come from? We saw that neither. But we know it in ourselves. We simply believe and continue to believe in God the Spirit, God the Son and God the Father: the Trinity--three persons in one God!
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