Pause

 

As we pause to breathe and be today, what is stirring within you that you want to offer to God?  Is there a new thought, action, way of being you long for God to continue to nurture and nourish?  Is there a moment when love broke through in life-giving ways?  Has there been a time this week when you tried with all your soul to love and things still went off the rail?  Hold your one precious and wild life.    

 

Breathe in God’s embrace of your prodigal younger son…breathe out the feelings of being lost and wandering and the realities that all our lives have moments of being in the muck/mud.

Breathe in God’s care of your prodigal older son…breathe out the pain that can sit unresolved within us which cause us to NOT join the party.

Breathe in a love that will not let you go…breathe out all that demands you “earn” or “deserve” more than others.

Breathe in the invitation to share God’s love with others…breathe out the barriers we construct as humans.

Breathe in moments when you have found yourself injured, needing help…breathe out the understanding that we have to do it all by ourselves.

Breathe in your Good Samaritan efforts to help…breathe out times that was misunderstood or mistaken by another. 

Breathe in and be in God’s presence without words.

 

Now, repeat the above as many times as you need this morning.  Each time hear the way your story is finding new scripts from Scripture to read and live from.  And may you know love; may you know strength; may you know rest; and may you know joy and peace this day. Amen.