Every Breath is Love

~~~ The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~~~

~~~Ezekiel 37:1-14~~~ Psalm 107 ~~~ Matthew 22:34-40 ~~~

You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart,

with all your soul, and with all your mind...

The Lord sends the prophet Ezekiel into dry bone 

covered plain with the instruction to prophesy over the lifeless bones.

Dry bare bones certainly have lost their ability to love the Lord.

Dry barren bones are stripped of their flesh and their spirit.

Dry bones have no life left within them.

But God does not allow that to keep him from fulfilling his prophecies.

Ezekiel sees the prophecy from the Lord fulfilled right before his eyes.

He hears the rattling of the bones as they join back together.

He see the muscles and the flesh materialize right before his eyes.

God is working this miracle as a message to Israel.

Israel seems to be lost, dry, with no spirit left in them, 

but God does not give up.

It is impossible to love the Lord with your whole heart, 

mind, body, and soul if your bones are lying lifeless on the ground.

God is sending his prophecy to Ezekiel to prove all is not lost.

God has powers to not only put together the bones

with its muscles and skin,

but the power to return the spirit.

The joining of the bones and the flesh do not make the person whole.

Without the breath of the spirit, which comes form above, 

is not present there is no life...

if there is no life there can be no way to love the Lord.

God gives us every possible way to love him

 with our whole mind, body, and soul.

I will put my spirit in you that you may live,

and I will settle you upon your land;

thus you shall know that I am the LORD.

I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.

God delivers us whole and safely 

so that we may come to love him more fully.

To love him more fully means that we must also

 love ourselves and others as God loves.

This is of course easier said than done.

Blessed in every way with his love.

Love is the whole reason and purpose

 for every breath of air we inhale.

I invite you to spend a few minutes today

 just focusing on your breath...

this is the spirit with which we are to love.

~~~Peace~~~