Learning how to Breathe Differently

 

Good sense makes one

     slow to anger,

and it is one's glory

  to overlook an offense.

            Proverbs 19. 11

(The strongest person

in the room is not the loudest

        or meanest.

But one of our

       most obvious and visible

attributes and witnesses

  is to be slow to anger

  and to overlook an offense.

The offender is not perfect,

       nor are we.

Being slow to anger leaves

  a lingering aroma of grace

instead of generational

   bleeding-out wounds

   in relationships.

Know how to back away

  and no one gets hurt.

Strangely enough, this

 passage literally means

  that how we breathe 

  in a volatile situation

changes both our stance

       and countenance.)

O LORD,

Give us the strength

  to breathe differently

in hardship, when attacked,

 when we are wounded,

 or in an explosive situation.

Fill us with Your breath

  of grace and forgiveness.

Change the trajectory

    of these circumstances

for Your glory instead.