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The freer breath

From the November 1981 issue of The Christian Science Journal


It's natural for one's breath to come freely, for in reality we live in God, who is the source of all life and breath. His love makes up all that there is to our surroundings. To human sense, we inhale and exhale a materially defined mixture of gases called "air." But in real, spiritual being, man breathes nothing but God's love.

Of course, "breathing" is only a human way of picturing how God gives and we express His giving. As He is Spirit, and we are truly His image and likeness, we actually have no other substance than Spirit. Spirit, divine Love, both surrounds us and constitutes our substance. It does not come and go; it is completely ours.

Because Love is all power, the only power, the flow of love to us is irresistible. Its influx is essential not only to us but to Love itself, because Love could not be Love without being expressed, and man is that expression. There is no condition, no force, no obstruction, no allergy, able to block or restrict Love's constant inflow. For Love, Spirit, is the only creator and does not erect or put up with a single impediment to the spontaneous surging of its own goodness and glory. As Paul says, it is God who "giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; . . . for in him we live, and move, and have our being." Acts 17:25, 28.

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