Tiny Little Breaths

Ever find your self drowning in a sea of overwhelming stress?  That stress can come from grief, financial woes, pain, worry, anxiety etc.  Whatever trial you are facing is just way to big for you to handle. You pray.  You beg God.  You look everywhere, try everything ,work extremely hard, but still there is no end in sight, no solution.  You get to the point where you are so tired that you just start to feel maybe it is time to just let go and sink.  You're treading water but your arms are tired and your legs ache.  You are keeping your face above water but barely.  It is like when you see in the movies the hero or maybe the villain is trapped inside the cave, or ship, or some enclosed area and the water keeps rising.  The lights go out and only your eyes nose and mouth are above water but the ceiling is inches away and the water is still rising.  You know the scenes I am talking about.  Many of you know this feeling regardless of the source of the trial.  Suddenly you get a little breath from God.  Not a rescue.  Just a little breath.  That little breath keeps you moving.  Keeps you hoping.  You still have to wait or ride out the storm.  You still can't see the water lowering or the clouds breaking, or the shore.  Just a little breath.  Yet, that little breath brings a strength, a reprieve perhaps, that keeps you treading water.  It keeps you forcing your head above the waves or close to the ceiling were that tiny half inch of air exists.  It keeps you going until the next time you need another tiny little breath.  Thank you Lord Jesus, Father God, Holy Spirit for tiny little breaths.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Where Is The Love?

Matt 7:3“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Recently, I have read some FB posts about the problems of the modern church.  My friend Ben Jensen wrote an excellent rebuttal to one of them and I will refrain from re-iterating it here.  Please take the time and read his statement in his blog Dear Church: People Will Always Leave You at  http://lifeunstained.blogspot.com/     Read it. It is worth your time. It is easy to go about ranting on what is wrong with the church.  We, who are the church, are fallen, imperfect, etc.  So there is a lot of material available.  Possibly a 1,000+ volume encyclopedia on me alone and I am just 1 of millions. I understand admonishments and exhortations are needed from time-to-time.  And yes discipline needs to be exercised as well.  But we need to be so careful that we do not overstep our authority and find ourselves in dir...
Read more

This Man Knows His History...

Image
Ever come face-to-face with your own history? Today I did.  I had the blessing and humbling honor to meet the man who was responsible for my life and the lives of my family.  Today I met Matthew Duffy, formally, Sgt. Matt Duffy. Sgt Duffy served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Why is he responsible for my family's lives?  Come with me on this incredible tale and find out.  My father, Gottfried Kligmann and his brother Samuel Kligmann were imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after their half brother turned them in.  They were scheduled to be executed when the US Army arrived an hour ahead of schedule.  Sgt Duffy was one of the soldiers who arrived at that time. Here is a snippet of his story which he related to me today. His battalion, the 2nd Ranger battalion, was attached to the 101st,, airborn battalion but he was with the ground troops.  They were to make a coordinated ground/paratrooper strike on a target. The airborn soldiers were behind schedule and the ground troops wer...
Read more

Do you Hope with expectation?

 I have been re-reading the book of Romans in the Holy Bible. There is a word that occurs 14 times that God has brought to my attention.  The word is "hope."  When God, through His Holy Spirit brings a word to my attention, I research it.  Like all Bible scholars, and wannabes (me), I went to the Greek. The word used for hope, in the Greek, is "elpida, elpidi," et.al.  This word is also translated as expected or expectation. So I contemplated (picture me in an Alistair Cooke setting, LOL) the application of the word hope.  Hope can be anything from hoping for an A on a test, a Lamborghini, a kiss, a healing, a new job, etc. But hope, as the apostle Paul meant in his epistles, was that of expectation.  Not just the hope of a maybe, but the expectation of a promise to be fulfilled.  A hope that requires faith. Faith that says not just something to which we look forward, but a trust and belief that allows you to EXPECT that it will be fulfilled....
Read more