pneuma (nooma)

I am about 35,000 feet above the ground right now. I am flying over the Atlantic Ocean on my way to Greece. It has only been about 5 hours into the 9 hour flight. I can honestly say that this is best place I have been in a while even though I haven’t spoken a word the entire time to my flight buddy next to me, young children and babies are annoying everyone, and this is the smallest space possible you could ever bear to sit in for such a long flight. My butt keeps going numb but I have a window seat and I can’t get up and walk around when I want. Yet, I like it though. Sometimes silence is best for us and so is stillness. Sometimes only being able to breathe is good for us.
I just watched a Rob Bell Nooma video. In my opinion, best thing you could ever do at 35,000 feet in the air. I watched his video called “Breathe”. Its 10 bucks…go buy it and watch it and try to be in an airplane to get the fullest effect. He talks all about what it means to breathe and how sacred it actually is. I mean, I have never really thought that breathing could be Holy. Its just something we do up to 20,000 times a day. It redundant and no thought is put into it. Yet, he makes you see that it actually is something Holy in his video. My favorite part of the video and what really struck such a chord in my heart was this…
“When you let God in, when you breathe, what happens is you become aware of all the things you need to leave behind, everything you need to let go of. If you were to be totally honest about what’s going on inside of you, is there anything you need right now to breathe out? What is it that you need to breathe in?”
I have so much to breathe out and even more to breathe in. I need to breathe in rest and peace, comfort and joy. I need to breathe out so much crap that hinders God from giving that to me. His word says that in Him we live and we move and we breathe. So, we do but don’t realize it. I have to sit still and just breathe for another 4 more hours. Rob is totally right. When you really just breathe and let God speak to you, touch you, or inspire you, you really begin to see your life and what you need to leave behind and let go of. I love that I can go away to another country and do this. I know I can’t escape these things, but getting away from my everyday life, my heart can change. I can see what’s really important to God in my life and what’s just pure trash and maybe when I come back home I can put this new breath of God into action.