Breathing

Breathing is such a natural part of life that the well person would not necessarily  notice that they were  doing it. 

For the person  with severe ME breathing is not that simple.

Breathing can be a daily struggle; nothing can be taken for granted with Severe ME. 

The carer too struggles for breath, to breathe life into the situation, to find new pathways to tread to keep hope alive.

The withered dry bones that the Bible refers to,could represent so easily, the carer and sufferer  constantly fumbling with the attempts  to find a cure, to get a service , to make a stand, to just get through each day. 

Almost inevitably we find ourselves knocked back, knocked down time and again, having to pick  our weary bones up off the ground. The miracle is that we do pick ourselves up, metaphorically speaking at least, that  we do get through  and more than  just get through ,we live our life.

New life, vision, determination, hope, these are all gifts of the Holy Spirit : the very breath of God giving  us life, that protects us from despair, that gives us the strength, that breathes on us afresh every day, so that our  dry weary bones may have life.