Come Alive
What’s one way you can connect to your breath today and experience it as expansive rather than personal?
Ezekiel 37: 9-10
Then God said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” I prophesied as God commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.
Come alive; reclaim the ordinary goodness of life; become the beauty this world needs.
This moment in Ezekial is the moment we learn that all of us share the same breath. It’s the same thing that animates everyone.
Looking around, I see some people gasping for air while others seek to take more than their fair share. The winds came from all corners of the world to spark life in every unmoving meat suit in that valley.
When we breathe in the Spirit of life, we all breathe the same air from the same wind through the same source. That which makes us come alive comes from the exhales of the world and one another as well.
This is mindfulness; the recognition that we are all connected, that went one suffers we all suffer and we cannot rejoice until all can rejoice.
What’s one way you can connect to your breath today and experience it as expansive rather than personal?