EXHALE

Sometimes we get so caught up living in this physical world that we tend to neglect the spiritual being within. The being that is yearning for attention and love. The Being that is carrying us through this life that we perceive to be real.

We tend to think that all we have is what we are. We feel depleted and discouraged when "life" doesn't seem to be going so smoothly or as planned.

Why do we feel so free but yet so captivated by the things we experience and feel? Why do we lose ourselves in the routines we have so diligently created for ourselves? Why do our hearts go right while our minds go left?

When did we forget to exhale?

Many of us spend most of our lives inhaling. Taking in the life moments. Holding on to memories. Harboring resentment and pain. We take in the moments of joy, love, fear and pain but we forget to release them.

We forget to detach from them. We allow them to hold us down, to define us...to keep us captive in yesterday.

We forget to exhale.

We forget to live in the moment.

We carry each moment into the next and never fully experience life for what it really is.

Life is unlimited moments. Moments that come and go. Individual NOW moments.

Moments of faith.

Let them go as them come. They are a flash in time.

Take them in....inhale the moment but don't forget to exhale.

Empty your lungs.

Make room for the next moment.

The next fresh breath of air.

Make room for God's spirit that is unlimited, ever changing but yet so constant.

Don't forget to exhale.

Interruptions

Life can interrupt your plans. At times it may seem like everything is out of control but yet still in control. Things around you can be chaotic but your spirit has the ability to rest in God.

That is what has been going on in my life lately. I can see how much I have matured in God and how my faith has grown stronger. The things that used to take me for a spin don't have that control over me anymore.

Do I still struggle with doubts and fears? Yes, but they don't overcome me the way they used to. I recently had a death in my family and two family members got very sick but I was still at peace.

I remembered that poem about the footprints in the sand. I sat back one day and it hit me. God was carrying me. He was helping me get through some circumstances that a year ago may have consumed me.

It is amazing to me how I can actually be on the other side of my emotions now. I can look back and say "wow you have traveled a long hard road but look at where you are now". I am resting in God.

There are moments when my mind wants to get caught up in my natural circumstances but I quickly bring myself back to the place of faith....of resting and trusting in God. Only He knows the plans He has for me and I must trust that they are good.

I must rest in His undying and unconditional love. I must allow His peace and joy to consume me and saturate me with assurance.

In Him I live, breathe and have my being. Nothing can touch His anointed. I am God's anointed and in Him I will stand.

All praise and honor be to God. :)