Hi everyone and welcome to a time of being still and being loved. My name is Elisa Keaton. I'm so glad to do this with you today.

So begin to take some big breath in and out

and settle yourself down into a posture that is comfortable for you.

Seated in a chair, a firm chair,

or lying on your back, you want to feel a sense of support.

That there is an awareness that you are being supported by something,

whether it's the floor or the chair.

And now begin to take another breath

as you settle into your posture.

Maybe turning your palms up, resting them on the floor or in your lap.

And just allow the breath to do its work. Notice the sound of your breath in your throat in your belly, let your belly expand with breath.

And then let it deplete,

drawing in towards the spine as you exhale with your abdominal wall muscles.

Make it an active breath right now so that you are engaged with the breath

because soon we'll just let the breath wash over us. Notice any swirling thoughts or charged energy that is stuck either in your mind, in your heart or any place in your body, just search it out and find it, maybe become curious

about this feeling, pressure,

and then let the breath drive out any feeling or sensation or thought of heaviness or despair. Soften your jaw, your jaw increases between your eyebrows.

Keep breathing and inviting a heaviness to come upon you to surrender, to fall back and to trust. So God, we thank you that you've made us whole.

So God, we thank you.

That you've made us whole. that you and to ourselves and to one another.

Connected to you and to ourselves and to one another.

We thank you that your word invites us to rest, to trust, to have faith and the fruit of faith releases us from all sense of dread, fear, shame, or guilt.

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