Mother Natalia

I like that a lot because there is, I think, something poetic about

especially the second half, breathing in His mercy and breathing out my sin.

And in that order, like I think we often get this mixed up in our heads that we have to purge ourselves of sin and get over our sin and then we can receive His mercy, but actually we need to receive His mercy in order to even be able to get out of the sin.

And so I like that order.

But anyways, if you're able to practice praying the Jesus prayer with your breathing, then you start to realize that,

that, well, breathing is something I do without ceasing as long as I'm alive.

And so that's a way that we can start to subconsciously pray the Jesus prayer as we learn that we're doing it with our breathing, as Cameron did when she woke up from anesthesia.

She was just, because she's breathing and because she had linked it to her breath, she was able to pray without even realizing it.

And that's one of the books that really popularized the Jesus prayer.

No, I don't think so.

I love that.

I've never heard that quote before.

I like it though, because His mercy is something that is just a safe bet to ask for.

Like we know that when we're asking for His mercy, we are asking for something He wants to give us.

We know it's in line with His will because God is mercy, right?

He's not just merciful.

It's not just an attribute of His.

Like there's never a point in which God can be not merciful.

It's not an attribute.

He is mercy.