These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

A Breath

The frantic pace of daily deeds
can take our breath away.
We meet demands and others' needs,
until the face is gray.

What gives the spark of living grace?
What helps us hope, again?
A moment's peace, that can displace
the trauma felt within.

But is it trauma, that we feel
when nothing's really wrong?
There's just too much of all that's real,
that chokes our daily song.

A breath we need to sense the Lord
is with us where we are.
A breath can help us speak the Word
and see beyond each star.

A breath, a pause, a time to rest,
until SHALOM's restored.
The breath of life from One, Who's Blest,
the Living, Loving Lord.

by Jay O’Toole
on July 21st, 2022