Love On Your Breath

Love On Your Breath “I know the bad things I’ve done, but he owes me!” “Why should I have to conform to the new rules, I have been with this company for 40 years.” “Thank you for blessing us with this food. I am ashamed that my family was not generous when we had an abundance.” Be sincere in your apologies. Truly repent and do what is rightfully asked of you. Bless another with what you have been blessed with. Work and care beyond the worth of your paycheck and family obligations. We are encouraged to go to Jesus humbly in simple prayer and ask for favors and absolution. Not through our worthiness are we forgiven and blessed with many wonderful graces, but through God’s generous heart will we receive these things and more. Live with love on your breath, so that even your slightest sigh will be a blessing to another. Luke 7:1-10 After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to Jesus, they appealed to him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy of having you do this for him, for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us." And Jesus went with them, but when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; therefore I did not presume to come to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and the slave does it." When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith." When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.