Hi, friends, and welcome to a time of being still and being loved.

My name is Elisa Keaton.

Take a few moments to situate yourself in either a seated or reclined position.

Whatever posture you choose, be sure that you are lengthening your spine from the tip of your

crown of your head to your tailbone.

And now begin to take purposeful, deep breath.

And inhale through the nose and widen the ribcage in the belly.

And exhale out the mouth.

Do that again on the inhale, resting your jaw, not clenching.

And on the exhale, maybe this time I,

connect to the sound of your breath, the feeling of your breath.

And now with our set apart, holy imagination.

Visualize your breath.

Perhaps it's like a wave that washes over you.

Or like light that illuminates from inside of you.

Or a color.

So, God, we thank you for the gift of rest that we are called to rest.

We thank you for the gift of rest that is not sleep.

One that just centers ourselves, remembering that you are God with us.

Right now, in this very moment, you are in our breath.

You give us breath.

And the breath sustains us.

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