Hi there
I attended a poetry night yesterday and it seems to have influenced my thoughts today. Here’s today’s Holy Nougat
“Then ADONAI Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7 TLV
Breath of life … Spirit-breathed
Fashioned from that which we now have to tend , from dust we’ve come to dust we return. Having no meaning till that very first breath entered, enveloped, enlivened. From subjective thought to objecting being, whatever happened with us in between. What was God thinking? Did God realize what God was doing?
We assume superiority over all things created; we’ve received a special ability to think and reason. Power to determine, make our own decisions. And in our reasoning, we designed ourselves greater than the one who created, what shallow humans!
With all the theories we miss the one step; the possibility of our Creator offering that first breath. And so we miss the opportunities to abide with the breath of God’s Spirit nestled inside. The Spirit of Life, a Breath of Hope; a touch of the intangible delicately exhaled into frail brings who quite often fail to recognize God as the centre, the Author, Redeemer poured such a treasure in our broken containers.
A momentary setback a moment’s pause, and the created glimpses anew God’s greater cause – life in abundance for one and for all, humans, animals, plants; great and small. A whisper floats upwards from earth to heaven – Breath of life, Spirit breathe upon us once again. And from the dust of the frame carefully cultivated, Life’s breath returns, the Creator is elated. Earth is transformed by life from God’s Spirit
Spirit-breathed, Life’s breath, the dance of Creation
In Christ’s love and grace . . .
