“I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will
sing praise to my God as long as I live.” Psalm 104:33 (NIV)
“Everyone, practice breathing deeply,” the nurse instructor of my
pre-surgery class encouraged last week.
I have tried to follow her directions but don’t always remember.
Singing the wonderful choruses in church on Sunday morning, it came to me,
singing is breathing deeply! And, as a major in vocal music, I learned that
deep, diaphragmatic breathing is what singers do.
While I prepare for surgery, I can sing praises to the Lord my God,
over and over every day. What more reassuring and comforting way to prepare my
heart and mind and body. You can develop your lungs every day of your life,
too, by simply singing praises to God, with deep tones and deeper meaning, long
praises and longer commitment. Sing praises to God for as long as you live and
you just may live longer. Let us pray:
“Holy Father, to you I sing. I breathe in your love and life-giving
health-laced air. I exhale all the staleness
of my life. Your breath fills me with your presence and I know that you live
within me. For this day, I ask for your mighty wind to blow through my life and
touch me with healing and health, love and the ability to love in return.
Forgive me when I forget to breathe in life and sing your praises with gusto. May
today be the day when songs of love pour forth from my heart and fill the world
around me. In the name of Jesus, your son and the author of Love, I pray. Amen”
Doris
"God gives us stories that testify to His love. Let me tell you
mine.”
Copyright 2015 Doris Gaines Rapp
Novels: (Available
online at Amazon and Cokesbury)
News
at Eleven – A Novel now available on
Amazon or purchased at the Bookmark on Anthony Blvd. in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Length
of Days – Beyond the Valley of the Keepers (2nd in the trilogy)
Length
of Days – The Age of Silence (1st
in the trilogy)
Escape
from the Belfry
Smoke
from Distant Fires
Hiawassee
– Child of the Meadow
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