Spirit.

Spirit is the animating principle of life!

It gives life to inanimate matter.

It is symbolized by God's Breath - The Breath of Life!

"then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being."  Genesis 1:7 (NRSV)

The Breath of Life is God's Spirit.

It permeates and supports all life.

And so we have a spiritual body.

And even plants and trees must have spirits.

This may help us to understands the Sacred Sites of Aboriginal people.

Our spirits discern the peace and presence of God in a particular place.

There may be extraordinary beauty and silence in a forest or a waterhole and this becomes a 'thin place' where we can encounter God.

Trees and plants breathe in what we exhale.

And so we are partners in a larger ecology.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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