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As long as you breathe, you are alive. Breath is life.
Sometimes it’s easy to start thinking that our bodies need to have food and water to survive. Certainly this is true in the long term, but people can go for extended periods without water, food, or both. One thing that you can’t go without is oxygen. If you don’t have oxygen, your body will shut down and stop functioning. Without breath you have no life.
The ancient Hawaiians understood this. The Hawaiian word ‘Ha’ means breath. In ancient Hawaii people would greet each other by exchanging a breath with an exhale while saying ‘Ha’. To this day, Hawaiians great each other with the word alo-HA, which is often translated as hello or goodbye. The word is more accurately translated as love or compassion for your fellow human beings, those you share the breath of life with.
Imagine a world with no oxygen. There would be no breath. There would be no life. Christians say that God breathed life into the lifeless mud form of Adam and gave him life.
If we consider breath, oxygen, and life sacred, why do we allow our air to be destroyed and dirtied in the name of greed and money? On this day, consider how we are allowing the life the Creator gave us to slowly be extinguished by destroying the air we breathe.
