He breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.”
—John 20.22
In the beginning God formed a human
from the dust of the ground,
and breathed into its nostrils the breath of life;
and it became a living being.
In the valley of dry bones
Ezekiel prophesied to the breath
and it breathed life into the bones.
Jesus, once dead and buried,
came to us, entombed in an upper room,
and breathed his life into us, his spirit, his love.
Christ is the Spirit and we are the body, alive now.
Breathe in me, Breath of Love.
Live in me, that I may be
a cell in the living, risen Body of Christ.
Breathe in me, Breath of Love,
that I may love the whole Body,
and all Creation, in the Spirit of Christ.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net