Breathe

Genesis 2:7 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.

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Joh 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Job 33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.


Exekiel 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

Psalma 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.


This may seem like a strange topic for my blog this morning at 3:00 am CST. But it is very much on my mind lately. The single biggest miracle for human kind is that God chose to breath the breath of life into our nostrils. For most of us we take Breathing for granted. I vow to be thankful for this gift each day, hour, minute, second and moment of my life.

I understand all to well what it is not to be able to take a breath. As most everyone know (how could you not know, I whine about it all the time) I have severe Myastenia Gravis that affects my respiratory muscles. It weakens them severe at times. Plus I have the double whammy, its called Asthma. I have allergic asthma, exercised induced asthma, every kind of asthma you can conceived I have.

This part may be boring but bare with me, I will get to my point. Breathing, or pulmonary ventilation, is the process of exchanging air between the atmosphere and the lungs, and includes inspiration (inhalation), and expiration (exhalation). An example, the lungs are like a container. By changing the size of the container, the pressure inside increases or decreases proportionally. During normal breathing, the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles contract to expand the lungs (our container), causing the pressure to decrease. When that pressure becomes lower than the atmospheric pressure, the air will move into the lungs (if you have ever siphoned gas its the same idea). As it moves into the lungs, it gets warmer, becomes moist, and expands.
During expiration (exhalation), the diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax, causing the cavity size to reduce, which causes the pressure to increase. When that pressure becomes greater than the atmospheric pressure (outside), the air is forced out of the lungs.

All of this is to say that breathing in is an active process, that requires strong muscles. When you breath in the chest expands and when you exhale it is suppose to be a passive process. So you are really suppose to work to breath in and rest to breath out. Neat concept, except for a Myasthenia Gravis and Asthma suffer. The Myasthenia keep me from have enough muscle strength to bring the air in to my lungs. And once the air is in the lungs I have expiratory asthma which is a fancy way to say all my bronchial tubes constrict and I have to physically ( with my muscles) push the air back out. That's what causes that lovely wheezing sound I have most of the time.

So I really believe I have a pretty good handle on how precious breath is for human life. At times the harder I try to breath, the weaker my muscles get and I end up sounding like a panting dog with short shallow breaths. No wonder, my brain doesn't work correctly most of the time, it is Oxygen deprived. (LOL) So are my other organs. But we compensate, that's another gift from God that I want get into today.

I have said all of this just to remind my self and anyone else who might read this, how precious the gift of breath that GOD him self breathed into our nostrils, it is there to sustain our lives. It is something when working correctly that we don't even think about. Sit very still for a few minutes and listen and feel your self breath. And thank GOD for each and every breath. I am going to finish when a poem that I don't know who wrote, but that I love, I have quoted it many times on face book. But I love it and would like to share it with you.

The Best Things

The best things are nearest;

breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,

flowers at your feet, duties at your hand,

the path of Right just before you.

Do not grasp at the stars,

but do life's plain common work as it comes,

certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Psalms 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

Love all y'all from the world of Lisa

Things: where is our heart

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

This is such beautiful scripture. And it is in two different places in the Bible, that tells me it's impotant. Do we every really think about where our treasures are. Things, things, things,just seem to get in our way so often. I had something happen here at the house, last month when the nurse Jolie came to check Rodney off on accessing my port. We always use my dining room table as our work station. Well everyone knows that when I finally got my back pay from social security we bought some new furniture. We have never had much furniture the we bought, most thing we had were given to us over the years. Joshua now has my old table which was mama and daddy's, that I stripped and refinished at least 20 years ago. It had sentamental value and I'm glad Joshua wanted that table in his home, but if he had not wanted it and none of the others had wanted it I would have found some one to give it to that might have been in need. So back to my story about accessing that stupid broken port. We had to opened 4 start packs, used 6 Huber needles before it was finally working. When we went to clean up the HUGE mess we had made, we discovered that where we laid the antibacterial swabs after we cleaned the site, multiple times, on one of the sterile barriers. Well the sterile barrier we put down was not liquid proof, and some of the the very strong antibacterial liquid leaked through and made a fist size spot on my new table, where it took off the finish, that's some strong stuff. Oh me, the little girl who was here to check Rodney off got so up set about ruining my table. I told her not to worry it was just a thing and she had made a memory there for me. She was so upset that we would be mad. And maybe years ago I would have been mad, but what good would that have done. Would I have been an example to her of where my treasures are. To me things are just things that some times envoke a sweet or sad memory. Just like my Boston Rocking Chair that my Grandaddy bought me when I graduated from high school. I stripped it and refinished it last summer, because the girls thought it looked bad, and it was well used and not very steady. So we made a memory by working on it, Rodney did a lot of the work. And now I use it to display the first quilt I ever pieced by my self. That is a good memory. But if it was gone tomorrow I don't think I would be upset because its just a THING.

I told these story's about things in my life that I like, but they are just things, to give examples of some of the things I have accumlated over the 47 years of my life. They will not get me to heaven to live with my precious Lord and Savior Jesus and God the father, and the Holy Spirit that lives with us every day to comfort us when were down. That is where my heart should be. I enjoy the wonderful things God has allowed me to have. I am Blessed far beyond what I deserve. I want my first treasure to be my Lord and Savior, then my husband who is solid gold, the the 4 diamonds in my life named Joshua, Justin, Chelsea and Anna. And the new diamonds in my life Lesile and Amy. I want people to see me as having my priorities right and my eyes on Heaven. Where are your treasures, would you have gotten mad over the table. We let things rule our lives, we say if I just could get this my life would be easier. This is a lie of the Devil. Things never make our life better, there's always some new thing that comes along that makes us think if we had it our life would be better. When the only thing we need to make life better is the hope and trust and faith in Jesus Christ. THINGS, THINGS, THINGS. What things are you wanting. I like nice things but I want my heart to fully devoted to Jesus. How about you.