breathing

I'm so grateful for Ann's book and her blog A Holy Experience. How simple to think that it is just enough to breathe through the moment, to breathe through the pain. If I could just remember to do it...Please, Lord, Help me to breathe through the pain... feeling so grateful for class today and the work that I get to do. I love teaching, I love dancing and exercising and I love the faces of the participants, they are thriving, they are breathing hard, they are living with me in the time we get to spend together in class... The only joy I have had like it was when I worked at the hospital. There was pain there, striving for life, some letting go of it, I loved helping the patients and loving them. One man I will never forget asked for my hand and said "I know I will see you in heaven someday"

Can I work in a hospital again someday Lord?

I want to help the patients and the families live and breathe while they are there...

from Ann today:

"Just breathe.

And I think of it again, how the very name of God, YHWH, “is the sound of breathing.

The holiest name in the world, the Name of Creator, is the sound of your own breathing.”