See how the incense arises like liquid smoke, curling in waves of sweet aroma?
My Israelite children understood how incense symbolized their prayers. So, also, your prayers flow as perfume to me.
Now breathe in the sweet and cleansing scents of my presence.
Inhale my presence. Do you feel me calm your heart? I will stroke your head and give you fresh wisdom. New life.
Don’t let today’s responsibilities steal away what I offer you: my care and my breath.
Allow me to permeate your day as the fragrance of my love and life reaches deep within you.
Rest in me, dear one.
Let me strengthen you always.
When the days thicken with loss and dread, breathe in my fragrant love.
I am here.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again. I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:5-6
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