more than cells

Monday June 6th: the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. The Holy Spirit is the breath of life. It is the spark of God that brings about life in a lump of protoplast. Stem cells don’t breath. They are a wonder, they are a creation, they are a miracle, but they don’t breath. Maybe God has something else in mind for them, maybe not, but the debate is not closed on that one. You and I each breathe in our lifetime the same atoms that have been breathed by countless millions of others throughout history. Maybe even those same atoms breathed by Jesus when he cried out, “it is finished”. We are all connected to God and to one another through breath, through creation, through the spirit. One of our jobs is to recognize that and live it.