Someone recently sent me a Christmas card in a letter that had a small, colorful pinwheel sticker attached to the envelope. No explanation was offered, which was in the character of the sender. I didn’t ask my friend what it meant, that it was in my character. Instead, I studied the meaning of pinwheels and pinwheel symbols.
A pinwheel is a wind-catching design that will briefly take advantage of a small portion of a breeze to circulate the design on its spinning wheel, which is attached or attached to a shaft (like a pole). Some reels rotate on their axis for easy repositioning when changing direction. The earliest evidence of a pinwheel design dates back to China in 400 BC. But, the concept was renewed several times in various human cultures.
Today, the symbol of a pinwheel that is given to someone is a communication that means “you matter to me” or “you matter to me.” But I received the symbol in an envelope that contained a Christmas card. The sender was a Christian. I’m Christian. I found evidence that the symbol is one of the earliest Christian symbols. Christians believe that God is Lord and Teacher and that God moves us to love Him through the Holy Spirit. They also believe that God made a union with a human woman, through the Holy Spirit, to produce a male child, the only son of God, Jesus, who would be the Christ (hence the Christian title). The pinwheel symbolizes the capture of the Holy Spirit, which is described to move through all mediums, but mostly it is attributed to moving like the wind. As far as I can determine, the symbol was derived after Pentecost. See The Bible, Acts 2, where the Holy Spirit is described as the sound of a violent wind blowing from heaven.
Search the web for “The Christ Child with a Walker” to see a painting from 1480 that represents Jesus as a child, walking upright with the help of a three-rod walker. The three rods symbolize God, the Holy Spirit, and the Son of God (Jesus himself). The painter depicts Jesus practicing the role he would play in bringing the sins of man to his own death and resurrection. Note that the baby Jesus is wearing a pinwheel, which implies that the Holy Spirit (in the form of a wind) prompts him to learn and practice his destiny. The painter created a different scene, on the reverse side of this painting, to show an adult Jesus working with his cross, in his place of crucifixion. There is no grinder in the second scene, because the Holy Spirit, dwelling within the heart of Jesus, prompts him to complete God’s purpose.
What’s in your heart
