The
word pneumonia comes from the Greek pneuma, which means wind or breath.
Pneumonia is a disorder of the breath.
Sometimes
we almost stop breathing.
The
spiritual lungs become infected with busyness, with the good instead of the
best, with oozing wounds from the past and with burdens too heavy for any one
person to bear.
The
breaths become more and more shallow.
Wheezing
through our days.
Then
almost still, we rasp out the words over blue lips, “Where is the joy and power
we once knew?”
Lent
is a time to begin breathing deeply again.
To
take in the very presence of God.
“…true
worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth for they are the
kind of worshippers the Father seeks.” (John 4:23)
It’s
time to seek Him, to breathe in the very breath of God.
Oh,
to allow His Spirit to invade the far-flung reaches of our soul and to cleanse
us from the bacterial plagues, which displace the life giving power of His
Spirit.
Here
we are daily seeking to have our lungs inflated with Him. We kneel in adoration. We breathe.