For many of us throughout the United States, May can be a very busy month. It is the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. It’s also the month that most schools have their end of the year celebrations, graduations, proms, and of course, many families of high school seniors have their prom send-offs. May is definitely a very busy month for my family. In addition to all of the typical celebrations, we also have several family member’s birthdays within the month as well. While celebrations are great, they often can pull me away from my regular schedules, routines, and responsibilities. And if I’m honest, more often than not, life feels like a lot to keep up with, especially as a woman. As women, traditionally, we are the hosts and organizers, of all of these special celebrations. We are the ones that often create these spaces and opportunities for our family and friends to gather and celebrate these momentous occasions.
If you are one of the women that are busy this month, as am I; I would like to encourage you to take as many moments as you need to simply just breathe. As simple of an exercise as this is, there is something innately powerful about the act of just breathing, inhaling and exhaling air, that has a calming effect on the nervous system. It is grounding. Air [oxygen] is one of the main essentials of life. And your ability to do this, on your own, is a gift and a blessing within itself. Embrace this blessing. There is someone at this very moment who has lost their ability to do this on their own. They are laying in a hospital bed, kept sedated, relying on a breathing tube and ventilator, to do what you and I can do on our own.
To simply breathe means that, on some level, you are okay. No matter how busy your life may be at the moment, or how loud the volume of noise is in the world around you; you are here, and you are okay. And being okay, means that, as a child of God, you have the ability to handle everything that comes your way.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10: 13
Your breath means that you are alive another day. It means that God still has you here for a reason, and for a purpose, so breathe. Ground yourself firmly in your life, and in the knowledge/awareness of your own existence. Find comfort in each breath, knowing that you are, and that God is. He is your life, and He is in each breath that you breathe.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2: 7
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