Breathe In

Breathe in. Breathe out. Do we ever really think about the breaths we take? The beatings of our heart? Do we give thanks for the things that keep us alive every day? It’s easy to see how we can take for granted such things as our breathing and heartbeats. They’re so small and subconscious, we breathe on average about 20,000 times a day it’s easy to see how we can start to expect it. But would you if you had lung cancer? Or would every breath all of a sudden mean five more seconds that you can breathe, five more seconds alive. Why is it that we never really notice the world around us, or ourselves and how valuable it all is until were faced with losing it?
I think it’s an age-old question we’ll never escape and continue to duplicate. It’s our human nature I believe. We just get comfortable with being alive. We don’t really want to think about how fast any of it could be gone, who would? But that’s exactly what “Our town” was about; Getting too comfortable with life, acting like there is always tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, but do we even have two seconds from now? How can you be sure?
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."
He gave you that breath you just took, he take the next one from you just as easily. We get so caught up in life we forget to think about why we have it in the first place. We spend our days running and trying to get more and more stuff for a life that is a mere blink of eternity. And when it’s over where will you be? I think we all need a close call. Something to make us all get out of the routine we call our lives. Open our eyes to see if we really are living the lives we want to be living, because most of us probably aren’t. It makes you ask the question, “what if I died today”. Would you be content knowing you lived your life the best you could? Have you said all you needed to say? Have you done all you needed to do? Look at the most beautiful things in your life and see when the last time you really enjoyed them was, look at your loved ones and find when the last time you told them what they mean to you was. What if they never knew? Could you live, or die, knowing that? Our life is all we have; we can’t afford to take it for granted every day.
So breathe in. breathe out. And remember when you do, god is giving you a gift indeed. The gift of life what are you going to do with it?