One of my vacation projects was to burn out the stump of an Ash tree that died in my front yard. I’ve bored holes in it and filled them with Epsom salts over the past year. When the salt gets wet, it’s supposed to eat into the wood, making it porous. Then I filled those holes with kerosene, letting it soak into the pores. This I did several times, to get the wood saturated. But when I finally lit the thing ablaze, the kerosene burned nice and hot, but it just turned the stump black; it wouldn’t burn.

So I brought in some half-rotted Railroad ties my father-in-law collected 25 years ago. That creosote never gets old. Those rotted railroad ties burned long and hard, as long as the wind endured. I dug the soil out around the stump and got these burning embers as low to the ground as I could. But when the wind died down, the burning slowed. So, I got some utility cords and hooked up an old box fan and made my own wind. It acted like a blow torch or blast furnace.

The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as a rushing mighty wind (Acts 2:2), and as a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). Let Him blow on you and set your heart on fire again.