Day One

Day One:

SO I am blogging again today to keep up with my NEW me...

Today I was surprised that Nate actually woke up at 6:45am! I was greeted with almost 2 extra hours of sleep :-) Which was FABULOUS and I am very grateful!

SO its not as early as normal, however I still did a small and quick devotion and a quick prayer before I started getting ready for the day.

This devotion was about remembering to breath. It used the scripture verse in Genesis when God breathed the breath of life: "the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7) this devotion went on to say that it has been proven that when persons and animals are stressed or are experience moments of adrenaline our brain process better when it has enough oxygen, which we give as we take deep breaths.

Then the devotion concluded that God breathed breath into every living being on the earth, and that Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on his disciples before he sent them out, and then that the disciples experienced the holy spirit as a wind experience.

Sometimes as humans we get bogged down in the hustle and bustle of life and the expectations that the world and our families place on us that we forget how important stopping and taking a deep breath can be.

so if you read this, stop now, take a deep breath and give thanks for that breath in your lungs, unfortunately today around the world, particularly in Hatti several will attempt to breath and will be unsucccessful. Today is the one week anniversary of the earthquake in Hatti, may we all remember, pray, and help in any way we can.

To end I will leave a quote by John Wesley: (the founder of the Methodist Movement)

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”--John Wesley-