June - Pentecost
...tongues of fire, enabling them to move out from Jerusalem into the world to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
As you are reading this article, I wonder whether you have noticed that you are breathing. That without a thought, your lungs have just filled with air or emptied themselves as you exhaled. Or perhaps like me, you don’t even consider breathing – that is, until you choose to walk at pace up a particularly steep hill!
Breathing really is the most remarkable process. It just happens through waking hours and when asleep, yet even if awake and despite air entering our lungs and being expelled as we breathe out, we are unable to see the invisible gas that we are totally dependent on for life. It is for me one of the remarkable aspects of our amazing bodies.
All living things on earth including humans, use oxygen from the atmosphere to stay alive, yet to breathe 100% oxygen wouldn’t do us much good at all and I dare say that there will be some of you who never take breathing for granted. I think of asthmatics or anyone with a condition that compromises their breathing. It can literally be a life-or-death situation to struggle to breathe.