Comforter

 

"I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, 
who will be with you forever." ~John 14:16

The Divine has sent you a Comforter in the form of your own breath. She inspired the Almighty when the earth and stars were created. She was his playfellow and paramour, who made the waters of darkness dance with waves, and lit them with the path of the moon. 

She is Sophia, the very Wisdom and Spirit of the Lord, who humbles herself gladly to dwell in the rising and falling of your belly. The form of the Teacher will perish, but She will be with you forever. Press out her healing nectar from the space between breaths. What flows so gracefully can only be healing. 

You gain nothing by listening to the voices of fear and anger that others plant in your mind. Listen instead to the syllables of So'ham, like the wings of a swan, settling on the lake of your heart, or listen to the music in the name of Jesus, pouring into every cell of your flesh. Inhalation is communion wine, exhalation is your offering of gratitude. Just to breathe is worship. This beauty does not stream down from above. It springs from the well of Silence in your chest. Let the new earth flow from here.

Image by Picasso