BREATHE DEEPLY, SWEET BOY!

We have a very specific prayer request today...we need Witt to really BREATHE! We need nice, loooooong, DEEP breaths. Since he came off the vent yesterday he hasn't been staying very warm (although, Witt's Great-Grandmama, my mom, tells me that his precious little hands are warm now!) and this morning his upper right lobe was a little collapsed. We need our sweet boy to really BREATHE and expand those lungs and send that oxygen to his extremities so he can stay off the vent!

As I've been typing this post, I've been thinking about all the different songs, both Christian and secular, that speak of "Breathing." I will most likely "hear" Rebecca St. James' "Breathe" in my head all day today...one of my favorites!

"This is the air I breathe

Your Holy Presence living in me"

But, it's the classic hymn, "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" that I will be PRAYING for Witt today!!!

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

fill me with life anew

that I may love what thou dost love,

and do what thou wouldst do.

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

until my heart is pure,

until with thee I will one will,

to do and to endure.

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

til I am wholly thine,

til all this earthly part of me

glows with thy fire divine.

Breathe on me, Breath of God,

so shall I never die,

but live with thee the perfect life

of thine eternity.

In Him,

Cheryl