Brother Richard

I have come that you may have life, life in all fullness.

And drawing your awareness now to the place of life within your own body.

To the place of breath.

To the life present in your breath.

As you breathe in and breathe out.

Sitting in the stable awareness of your breath as life.

and your life as breath.

And if there was any area of your life that you saw needed to be enlivened

you can see yourself breathing your life, breathing the gift of life through your breath towards that area of your life.

And if you wish, you can even see divine life itself breathing through your breath, life towards that area of your existence.

Breathing in, you know you are breathing in.

Breathing out, you know you are breathing out.

Resting in the breath, resting in life, receiving the fullness of life.

And gently then, slowly, just being with the breath itself, letting all words fall away.

Knowing that you can bring this way of attending to a line or to words, whether from scripture or from any work of inspiration or even any song lyric or poem.

as a way of meditatively chewing over the gift of its meaning, the gift of its inspiration for you.

Gently then, you can begin to feel once again the floor beneath you.

Take a moment to really be aware of the body as it rests upon the chair, upon the cushion.

Feel that gift of life that you have breathing within you.

Gently begin to move fingers and toes and allow the sound of the bell to draw you back to the activity of the day.