Breath of Life

Hurt.

Despair.

Pain.

Sleepless nights.

Questions running through the mind.

Anger with God.

Why ME? Why NOW?? Why THIS???

My husband like to scuba dive and he dives for work as well as for pleasure. One of the things he does to get ready for his try outs as well as just to scare me, is to see how long he can hold his breath under water. Have you ever done this? Put your face under and push yourself to see how long you can make it. You close your eyes and try to think that you can go longer...you don't need that breath...but then that feeling comes. That feeling that you just may not make it. The worry sets in that if you don't breathe you think you might die. Then you rush to the top of the water to breathe in a nice big breath.

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This is how life tends to be. Big things come our way and we think we can handle them on our own. Just a little bit longer...I don't need God's help. Then that feeling happens. Maybe you have felt it before. That feeling that there is nothing else that can help you. That no one else can help you. That is when God is calling you up out of the water to take that breath. The breath of life. Then once you breathe and give it all to Him, it is a feeling like no other. Feeling like you can breathe again.

Whatever it is you are going through, God knows about it. If you are hurting, He is hurting with you. He is a Father looking down on His child. He wants so desperately for you to look up through those waters and take a breath of Him.


Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."