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I posted this on my blog, http://bigskyken.wordpress.com (http://bigskyken.wordpress.com), and it has already been the most viewed posting I've ever made, so I thought I'd share it here.

With all the wind we've been having here in the north country, it is a good thing our snowfall is well below normal. The combination of normal snowfall and the winds of recent weeks would have resulted in spectacular drifting, which I am happy to not experience! Late yesterday afteroon I was on the outskirts of Billings and the wind was doing a pretty good job of keeping things stirred up in the valley. As I was driving in a westerly direction, I looked to the southwest of the Yellowstone Valley and saw that the wind was whipping up a lot of snow over the top of the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains. I felt the wind was a little too nasty to set up my tripod, so I hand-held the camera to get several exposures to merge for an HDR capture. As I was essentially shooting into the setting sun, an HDR composition allowed me to get an image that is close to what the scene actually looked like.
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Like the wind, the presence of the Holy Spirit is invisible. A person cannot see it move or work. However, one can see the effect of what the Spirit does. One can see how it acts on things—just as the wind stirs up the settled snow. One cannot see the wind, but everyone has seen how it makes tree leaves and the branches sway or dust kick up from a dirt road. Often we see the impact of the wind, but not the wind itself. It is the same with the Spirit. The Spirit moves, and we then see the impact in people's lives. People act and a work gets done. What we see is not the Spirit itself, but the Spirit's fruit.

"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." John 3:8

Ken, a beautiful picture, and a perfect comparison of the effect of the wind in nature and the effect of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer.

Thank you Jeanne Lee.

Breath taking !!! Only the LORD could make something like that.

Absolutely, Marlo!  Making it even more impressive, I took the picture from more than twenty miles away from the mountains!

Incredible!!!

OH WOW that is spectacular!  Love the comparison too.

Thanks Judy!