This Breath Is Your Gift

Scripture  

Acts 17:24–28 (NRSV)  

The God who made the world and everything in it,  

He who is Lord of heaven and earth,  

does not live in shrines made by human hands,  

nor is He served by human hands,  

as though He needed anything,  

since He Himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.  

From one ancestor He made all nations to inhabit the whole earth,  

and He allotted the times of their existence  

and the boundaries of the places where they would live,  

so that they would search for God  

and perhaps grope for Him and find Him—  

though indeed He is not far from each one of us.  

For “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

Refrain  

This breath is Your gift,  

I am alive in Your love.

Poem  

Julian of Norwich  

He showed me a little thing,  

no bigger than a hazelnut,  

lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed.  

It was as round as a ball.  

I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought:  

“What can this be?”  

And it was answered generally thus:  

“It is all that is made.”  

I marveled how it might last,  

for it was so small I thought it might suddenly fall into nothing.  

And I was answered in my understanding:  

“It lasts and ever shall because God loves it.”

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