Mourning Breath
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Mourning Breath
Remember the first mornings on you honeymoon. Before you turned over to greet your partner you first got up and brushed your teeth or rinsed with mouthwash? Not so much now, huh?
I was reading Job recently in my One Year Bible by Tyndale. I came across his thought that ‘life is like a breath’. I wondered how many people mourn their breath.
I am sitting in a state of calm as I am writing this, although I am quite excited by this thought process. I am averaging taking:
12 breaths a minute... Equating to…
720 breaths an hour...
17,280 breaths a day…
If I am going to be in a place of not regretting my breath, (the life I have lived) then I will use the breath I take now (the life I am living) and make each inhalation count for something.
My wife just called. I am going to breathe in her ear.
Questions to Ponder:
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What breaths am I making the most of, ones that are hurried or ones that are calm?
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Is my life to this point more about regrets or about celebration?
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How will I change it starting with this breath?
Scripture:
Job 7:6 "My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle… Remember my life is but a breath…"