Christians celebrate the majesty and beauty of God’s creation, including the wind, even as they are also aware of the brokenness evident in God’s world. Wind can be a source of well-being and flourishing, but also of destruction and death. Whatever the case, Christians find comfort in knowing that God is sovereign over creation and, as the disciples exclaimed when Jesus showed his power on the Sea of Galilee, “even the winds and waves obey him” (Matt. 8:27).
In I Am Wind, author Rachel Poliquin cleverly allows the wind to speak autobiographically by combining science, mythology, and history. Poliquin introduces children to different types of winds: Ice Dragons (Piteraq), chinooks, devil winds, trade winds, twisters, Kamikaze winds, ocean breezes, and more. She relates mythological creation narratives that explain the origin of winds. She also narrates stories of wind storms that caused immeasurable destruction and death, such as the Great Storm of 1703 in the south of England and the world’s deadliest tornado that touched down in Daulatpur, Bangladesh, on April 26, 1989. Poliquin also includes scientific explanations for what causes winds to blow.
Illustrator Rachel Wada’s sweeping, whizzing artwork captures the motion, power, and beauty of the invisible wind's path.
A book to be pored over again and again, I Am Wind offers Christian parents and children an opportunity to talk about God’s creation of wind and how God is at work in the world today through the life-giving wind of the Holy Spirit who is making all things new.
(Tundra Books)
About the Author
Sonya VanderVeen Feddema is a freelance writer and a member of Covenant CRC in St. Catharines, Ontario.