...Random Can Be Good...

...As I tried to type the title mistyped and wrote:

...Random Can Be God...

So true.  Here's one example:

I was talking with my friend Rachel (Her Blog) on Skype today.  You see we live 3 hours away from each other and only talk through e-mail, phone, text, chat, and Skype most of the time/year.  I was talking about life and answering a few questions she had for me when randomly she says:

"Can I say something completely random?"

Without waiting for my response she then states...

"You need to learn how to enjoy breathing."

Breathing.

Hmm.... By definition breathing is many things.  Below are some of the definitions from dictionary.com for the word breathe.

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breathe

–verb (used without object)

1.

to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhaleand exhale; respire.

3.

to pause, as for breath; take rest: How about giving me achance to breathe?

5.

to live; exist: Hardly a man breathes who has not knowngreat sorrow.

–verb (used with object)

15.

to allow to rest or recover breath: to breathe a horse.

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I've been thinking about this a lot lately.  This act of breathing.  I breathe every day many times, but that wasn't what she was referring to.  She said I needed to enjoy breathing.  More than that she said I needed to learn how to do so.  Breathing in the figurative sense as to  rest.  I really like definitions #3 & #5.  Breathing is living and existing.  It is pausing to take a breath and rest.  I rarely do that.  I shove my schedule so full sometimes that I cannot see straight.  I claim to enjoy it and like it.  I do to some extent, but every now and then I wonder what it would be like to set aside time for me to study the Bible, absorb God, get lost in prayer, etc.  Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to go on a random photo trip again, not plan every visit I have with friends, spend time doing the things I am passionate about.

Sometimes I try to take time out for items such as the ones noted above, but then I feel restless and empty.  I feel that having "nothing" scheduled is bad.  She is exactly right.  I need to learn how to do this.  I must learn how to do this more often.  

Lessons from a 16-year-old.  This one is taken and noted.  I hope you too have learned to enjoy breathing.