breathing in new life

it hurts to inhale, it’s cold, it’s icy, it’s sharp but as my thoughts race to escape the chill, i suddenly find comfort in it’s embrace. something inside me starts to once again spring to life, the goosebumps beneath my thin shirt, the dull pain in my throat, the numbness of my fingertips all remind me of how very alive i am. in a moment, i am taken from wishing for warmth to appreciating the cold, because the brief struggle of walking a quarter mile exposed, more bare than I’d wish to be, opened my eyes. whatever cold, icy, sharp circumstance you are racing to escape in order to collapse into comfort, know that it’s been give to you for a reason. to bring you to the moment of standing underneath a star strewn night that seemed uneventful and mundane and be so overwhelmed that exhausted you drop to your knees and in an attempt to find a moment of rest finally breathe in. deeply breathe in. fully breathe in the new life that has been surrounding you, that has been asking for you, that you have been running from, yet something you have unknowingly been running to. the constant pursuit of unyielding Love that has finally caught you, arrested you, awed you. and in that moment of standing underneath a star strewn night that seemed uneventful and mundane be vulnerable enough to finally say, ‘the only way through this, is You.’