Breath of Heaven? 🙏

 

So yesterday was my birthday, and today is my little sister's birthday - we are exactly10 years and one day apart 😊

My husband surprised me, last week, by telling me he was taking me on a weekend trip to cabin at Lake Cumberland State Park for my birthday 😊

So I have a thing about sunrises and sunsets - and Lake Cumberland has some of the most beautiful of both in Kentucky (see past posts) :)

I tend to get very sentimental and reflective of the past year, on my birthday and Christmas, being so close to the New Year - finding myself filled with both gratitude and nostalgia.  

So as I watched the sun rise up from the hills and over the lake, painting the sky as it went, I was reminded of the song "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)."

Because you see, in my world, God is quiet and subtle - and if you blink or get distracted with other things, you'll miss him - and nature has always been my church :)

If you haven't heard the song, it's below - and it's about Mary's prayer as she journeyed to Bethlehem - and it's not particularly holy or exalted - it's honest.  

Her feelings of unworthiness, anxieties about the future, what people were saying/thought of her  ... and yet at same time, she somehow managed to find inspiration and gratitude in effort to lighten the load 😊

IMO, evangelicals don't focus on Mary enough, and Catholics perhaps too much.  Also, IMO, my idea of Mary wasn't so much holy as human, and her journey and struggles are particularly inspiring to women - not because she was a "holy" vessel, but because of all the obstacles that came at her during her journey that she would've had to have overcome, when we otherwise don't hear much about the struggles of women, except perhaps with Esther. 

So without further ado, I give you "Breath of Heaven" - by Amy Grant 😊

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I have traveled ... many moonless nights
Cold and weary ... with a babe inside
And I wonder what I've done?
Holy father you have come
And chosen me, now ... to carry your son?

I am waiting in silent prayer
I am frightened by the load I bear
In a world as cold as stone
Must I walk this path alone?

Be with me now
Be with me now

Breath of heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of heaven
Breath of heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me your holiness
For you are holy
Breath of heaven


Do you wonder as you watch my face ...
If a wiser one should have had my place?
But I offer all I am
For the mercy of your plan
Help me be strong
Help me be
Help me

Breath of heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of heaven

Breath of heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me your holiness
For you are holy
Breath of heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me


Breath of heaven
Breath of heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me your holiness
For you are holy
Breath of heaven
Breath of heaven
Breath of heaven