The Miracle of Breath and Easter
Today while I was busy breathing, doing my best to focus on my breath and not what I would blog about this week, I was flooded with a thought that shows up each time I practice.
While I have some level of control over my breath, I know that I am not really in charge. Were it not for the Divine, Creator, God, Spirit, Supreme Being, breathing me, I would cease to exist. 
Not that this hasn’t struck me before.
Perhaps the older I get, the deeper the strike.
When I think about all that we put our bodies through daily, year after year, I am amazed at how much they can take and still keep going. Still breathing.
We are miracles.
Albeit miracles with a few aches and pains, depending on the day.
Today, in the busyness of your life, make time to sit quietly and focus on your breath. Feel deep gratitude for your body—and the Divine–for keeping everything together so that you exist.
Easter Blessings
For Christians, Holy Thursday through Easter (or Pascha or Resurrection Sunday), is the most holy time of year.
When I was a little girl, my mother and grandma would gather the specially prepared Easter foods in our baskets. We would then go to church on Holy Saturday morning to have the foods blessed.
Beautifully decorated eggs, pascha bread (a sweet, egg-rich round bread made especially for Easter), Polish sausage, nutroll, chocolate bunnies, lamb-shaped butter, beet horseradish, ham, all blessed with holy water, prayers and lots of incense.
It felt a bit like penance because lots of other grandmas had their baskets filled with delicious (smelling) foods and we couldn’t eat any of it until after Mass on Easter morning.
Although the contents of my basket are a bit different, I still carry on this tradition today. 
Food connects us, invokes memories, comforts during tough times, helps us celebrate everything.
If you celebrate Easter, and even if you don’t, I hope your Pascha Sunday is filled with your favorite people and foods.
May you enjoy the blessings of spring and new life.
Much love,
Health Coach Carol
“You are here. You are loved. God is good. And that’s enough.”—Brandon Heath, from his song That’s Enough