"So breathe your spirit in me, I need your spirit inside this heart; alive in me."
I wrote this in my journal not too long ago:
Your embrace is my air.
God's response? "So, breathe."
I don't know why that can be such a difficult thing for me to remember. If the God of the universe is my breath, and if His embrace is my air, then I can breathe easy because He is holding me.
The end of that song is a declaration that I cling to every morning: "I am not the same, I'm a new creation. I am not the same anymore. I am not ashamed, I will not be shaken, I am not the same anymore."
So... breathe. Respira. Vivira. Breathe.
I had a nice little bus ride/walk back from town the other night. Walking through all these streets in the country area outside of Tartu, I decided to make believe a little. With Once and Griffin House playing in my headphones, I kicked rocks as I walked down the dirt roads, past all the old houses, torn down houses, houses that looked like no one had lived there in years. In the middle of that I passed a dandelion and remembered that one moment that I wrote about in front of my house in Milledgeville where I blew a dandelion like I was 7 again, and stood in that moment knowing I was exactly where I was supposed to be, and that familiar feeling was there again. I got to pretend like this was my home, and for a moment I forgot it wasn't.
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. So, I'm going to breathe.
What is this song called? I can't find it anywhere, I was at a Student Life summer camp with my church and Aaron Keyes played the song. But I cannot find it.
ReplyDeleteThis is so weird. I was looking for the name of this song too and stumbled upon your blog. As I was reading I came to the part about your house in Milledgeville. I happen to live in Milledgeville, GA. Is that the Milledgeville you lived in? Wow....what are chances of me running into that just doing a Google search for a song name? Let me know if you know who sings the song and the name of it? Thanks,
ReplyDeleteSusan in Milledgeville, GA
its a song by grace midtown called "breathe in me". download the cd on itunes!the reason why you cant find it anywhere else is because it is an original song by the worship band at this church called Grace in midtown, atlanta wrote it along with a song called "Lavish Your Love". hope I could help. stay blessed.
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