Friday, October 27, 2006

 

Breathing is believing

With all the talk in the news about reducing carbon emissions from cars for people living in Richmond in London, I have been reminded of a poem that came to me just before going to sleep one night, that I wrote down as it felt divinely received. As some one who has a few issues with asthma, this poem about understanding the divine through breathing is particularly poignant to me when thinking about ecological justice. Most people with asthma and nut allergies suffer so, either through air pollution, contact with highly allergical materials & gases, or through over exposure to nuts or nut oils too early as a child. I have both, and many in my family have allergies - so horrahh for the industrial revolution and how from then on, we have thought it acceptable to subject people and in fact the whole of creation to hazzardous environments and pollutants, and so it goes on from Father & Mother to Son and daughter - and the symptom.... increases in people with allergies.

Breathing in believing
Breath,
God’s breath,
God breathed and it was so.
Breathe in breathe out,
Molecules, born of the cosmic dance created,
From the heavenly lights renewed,
Revitalised through mystical exchange of matter.

God breathed, and all creation became so.
From void to infinite distance,
From darkness to incandescent light,
Fanned by the breath of the belovéd

So as God breathed over the waters,
Life entered where the divine played.

And God breathed on those,
Bestowed with the image of God - both equal,
Called to breathe and co-create,
To make, to incarnate, to propagate.

And the God of three was pleased,
With the results of creative breath.
But as one profoundly all-knowingly,
Knew breath and play were not enough,
That God must breathe as those bestowed with mortal breath.
To restore and recreate,
By loosing breath for others,
So that all may breathe well,
To breathe for eternal freedom.

Breath divinely given,
Breath humanly taken,
Breath divinely lost
Breath divinely restored.

But will God breath over our boiling waters and parched land once more?
Will divine breath restore a creation loosing its last breath and sustenance?
Will divine presence draw our world afresh once more?

Ian Mobsby
June 2006.


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