Month: October 2023

For just a moment, stop what you’re doing and close your eyes, breathe deeply and exhale slowly.

The breath you just took is not sustained by anything you did.

Every moment of every day you breathe in and out but seldom if ever spare a moment to realize what occurs during the process.

It has nothing to do with living and everything to do with being alive.

During this simple and natural act of living, you have no control whatsoever over the next breath.

Understand this, the process of being alive places you in the most vulnerable position possible, because you are entirely dependent upon the one who sustains life.

Your breath derives from your intimate, loving proximity to a God who ordains your life as something to be lived in His presence. He does this without asking for recognition or gratitude. So, whether or not you believe, He remains as close as the breath passing through your existence.

The wish to stop breathing merely challenges His ability to overcome a desperation, hopelessness, and fear of living. I would not recommend challenging His ability in any way, shape, or form, but should you find yourself tempted, close your eyes, breathe deeply and exhale slowly. As you do so, let the inhalation/exhalation speak the Name of Jesus. At that moment, He will reveal all that He has overcome of life and living.

You cannot end this by ending your breath.

Sometimes, it becomes difficult to choose life amid the desperation, hopelessness, and fear of this world, and although the choice is yours, He remains as close as the last breath you took.

You know what He expects.

You know what He desires.

It is simply this…

Breathe along with Him.

He has control of the many things the world throws your way with its attempt to halt your life. But the things of this world control neither you nor your breath. And although all life belongs to Him, He has dispensed with the freedom to make choices.

Again, you know what He expects and desires, and your hesitation to make the wrong choice proves exactly this.   

Remember, you are greatly loved, or you would not be alive to make choices.

You would be nothing.

But you are everything to Him.

Breathe along with Him, permitting His presence to pass through you like a breath that never ends, because it never does.

If He sustains the breath of life, how much more can He do if you just make the choice to let Him become as natural and simple as the act of breathing?

If anyone should say anything to you, all of you, it’s this…that you are greatly loved.

Whether you try and fail, try not at all, nor consider neither of any importance, it is already known to Him, so let it go and just relax.

To all those who live the lives of desperation and searching, I say this…that you are greatly loved.

I know of a different sort of desperation and yearning that lifts body, mind, and soul to heights no drug or artificial means could ever dare hope to obtain.

Oh, but I know…change is very difficult, and it is far easier to dig downward than upward.

Let go of the past, the burdensome weight of those many heavy things pressing you down and stealing your future, your life. The past has been borne and destroyed by the one who greatly loves the souls beneath the earthly things lying atop them.

 A grave can certainly be an abstract thing.

Let’s ask the angels what they think of man’s shovels.

“If only they had more arms,” they’d snicker.

All kidding aside, they’d still come to our aide.

Believe it or not, they are your brothers and sisters, hoping with all hope that we can bring the angels out from within each of us. Because you are not only made in our Father’s image, you have the capacity to become as great or greater than the angels. They are given to us as our spirit guides, our spiritual counselors, and a host of many other reasons, but primarily, to bring us into the realm of eternity where we, each one of us, belongs to a Father who wishes all His children to become like Him.

Like Him.

Like God.

I don’t know about you, but I want an eternity spent creating and building universes in communion with a Father who can never be depleted of knowledge, power or love.

He loves me immensely…and that’s not better than ‘greatly’, by the way.