Sunday Blessings: Awake and Breathe

Writer Maria McKee has a song called 'Breathe '

in which she presents

an offering of herself to Christ.

I will let you breathe through me

I will let you be with me...

My heart beats your blood;

your breath fills my lungs.

The Lord enabled Mama, Sonia and I

to do small acts of kindness

for the people who bear a grudge against us

and hurt us before they

left for a summer trip

this morning.

I know God will change

their hearts if they

listen to His voice.

We awaken in Christ 's body

As Christ awakens in our bodies...

and everything that is hurt,everything

that seems to us dark, harsh, shameful,

maimed, ugly, irreparably

damaged, is in Him transformed

recognized as whole, as lovely.

and radiant in his light.

-Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)