The Sacrament of Breathing

We don't struggle to earn a breath. Why should we struggle to earn a living?

Learn from breathing how to trust the Mother for all. Then work becomes offering instead of grasping. To enter the kingdom of heaven, which is the very Presence of this moment, become aware of the gift that abounds in each breath.

We don't take a breath: breath is given. Inhaling, breath flows into our body as Mother's grace. Exhaling, we offer it back. So effortless is this process that we take it for granted. But breathing is profoundly Eucharistic, a two-fold sacrament of grace and offering.

From effortlessly breathing in, we learn how to receive other gifts, like food, shelter, warmth, and love. From breathing out, we learn to give it all away. Do you hold your breath so as not to lose it? Are you afraid to share your breath with the world? Breath is given on one condition only: that you ceaselessly give it back.

If Divine Mother provides each breath, why would she not provide all other necessities? It is only our mind that blocks her grace, inventing the thought of lack.

"Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can a woman forget the infant at her breast?"(Isaiah 49) She never asks whether her child deserves milk. Milk just flows. Yet we imagine we must prove ourselves worthy of Divine Mother's grace!

Have you ever spent an hour, a minute, or the duration of a single breath just resting in Mother's embrace, allowing her to give you what you need?

Neither separate from God nor one with God, you are God's breath. Pray by breathing.

Practice this sacrament of any time, any place: breathe as you always do, but with awareness and gratitude. Simply to breathe is the purest worship.