SOMETIMES breathing is our only prayer we can pray, and God hears our sigh and once again breathes the breath of life into us.
We exhale, and it seems like such a little thing. But some days, it is everything.
It is communion—intimate and more than breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide.
It is sacred and it is holy: this agreeing with God that we need God, for all of everything, and His joyful entering in to our lives and ourselves and our very souls to make us one with Him.
We inhale so we can keep on going. And then we exhale, marking the cessation of the striving and the seeking; the end of struggling and the sweating to be noticed and to win and to arrive.
How long can you hold your breath? Eventually, you’ve got to let it go.
We let go so we can live. It is a sweet surrender.
Here is a magnificent and true dichotomy: we cannot truly surrender to the Holy Spirit without the Holy Spirit first breathing surrender into us. It is a surrender unto surrender.
We want to live a life of significance, but we can’t live it until we release our hold on it.
A life surrendered to the Spirit of God is a life lived with open hands, palms turned upward in letting go. We have to let go so we can live.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/10/why-we-all-need-to-exhale-today/
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Breath of Life
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SOMETIMES breathing is our only prayer we can pray, and God hears our sigh and once again breathes the breath of life into us.
We exhale, and it seems like such a little thing. But some days, it is everything.
It is communion—intimate and more than breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide.
It is sacred and it is holy: this agreeing with God that we need God, for all of everything, and His joyful entering in to our lives and ourselves and our very souls to make us one with Him.
We inhale so we can keep on going. And then we exhale, marking the cessation of the striving and the seeking; the end of struggling and the sweating to be noticed and to win and to arrive.
How long can you hold your breath? Eventually, you’ve got to let it go.
We let go so we can live. It is a sweet surrender.
Here is a magnificent and true dichotomy: we cannot truly surrender to the Holy Spirit without the Holy Spirit first breathing surrender into us. It is a surrender unto surrender.
We want to live a life of significance, but we can’t live it until we release our hold on it.
A life surrendered to the Spirit of God is a life lived with open hands, palms turned upward in letting go. We have to let go so we can live.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/10/why-we-all-need-to-exhale-today/
SOMETIMES breathing is our only prayer we can pray, and God hears our sigh and once again breathes the breath of life into us.
We exhale, and it seems like such a little thing. But some days, it is everything.
It is communion—intimate and more than breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide.
It is sacred and it is holy: this agreeing with God that we need God, for all of everything, and His joyful entering in to our lives and ourselves and our very souls to make us one with Him.
We inhale so we can keep on going. And then we exhale, marking the cessation of the striving and the seeking; the end of struggling and the sweating to be noticed and to win and to arrive.
How long can you hold your breath? Eventually, you’ve got to let it go.
We let go so we can live. It is a sweet surrender.
Here is a magnificent and true dichotomy: we cannot truly surrender to the Holy Spirit without the Holy Spirit first breathing surrender into us. It is a surrender unto surrender.
We want to live a life of significance, but we can’t live it until we release our hold on it.
A life surrendered to the Spirit of God is a life lived with open hands, palms turned upward in letting go. We have to let go so we can live.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/10/why-we-all-need-to-exhale-today/
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