Breathe
5 1-2 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
Ephesians 5:1-2 The Message
Breathe in
your love
breathe in
your acceptance
breathe in
your peace
breathe in
your hope
breathe in
your joy
breathe in
your strength
Breathe in your meekness
and humility
Breathe out
my insecurity
Breathe out
my fears
breathe out
my panic
breathe out
my anxiety and worry
breathe out
bitterness
breathe out
pride
breathe out
envy
breathe out
envy
breathe out
my desires
my desperate
my desperate
grasping
20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self,created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:20-24 NIV
I need you
I need you like I need air
fresh and new
every moment
I can only love
as you loved
with you in me
Panic
fear anxiety
shallow breathing
I am hyperventilating
thrashing
flailing
clinging
my voice shrill,
harsh and loud
driven
impulsive
obsessive
desperate
thrashing
flailing
clinging
my voice shrill,
harsh and loud
driven
impulsive
obsessive
desperate
not enough oxygen
getting in deep enough
to where it is needed
Pray
Breathe in
Breathe in
Breathe in
You are here
you have promised to be with me
you have promised to help me
you are what I need
You see all
you understand all
you are all
moment by moment
you have all that I need
moment by moment
you are all that I need
you are all that I need
breathe out praise
breathe out gratitude
breathe out thanksgiving
breathe out thanksgiving
breathe out lies
breathe in your truth
breathe out pretending
breathe out trying to be what you want
breathe out deceit
breathe out
25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
Ephesians 4:25 NIV
I love you Lord
Oh yes yes yes, neighbor!
ReplyDeleteThis is golden, Susan!
I was just reading yesterday in John where Jesus says the father loves me and shows me what he is doing: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does." I had this picture in my mind of Dad in his shop and son coming out to be shown what to do and work alongside Dad. Do fathers do this anymore?
Then your verse today, it was like a second confirmation, this is the way, walk in it! Thank you.
Praising God!
Beth