If You Just Breathe...

If you just breathe, life happens. I found myself saying that yesterday at work while I was coaching my twins on the concepts of life... yeah, breathing. Wait, did you say "my kids"? you may ask... yeah, my kids. I have twins and they like to hold their breath. Okay, really now, when did you have twins? No, I'm caring for a set of twins at work and they tend to hold their breath till they desat (drop their O2 level in the blood ~ medically, we call that periodic breathing or apnea). I think they do it just to keep me going and that they do, to the point of me saying, "IF YOU JUST BREATHE, LIFE HAPPENS!"

How true is that statement though... The more I think about it, the more I realize how true that quote is and how it relates back to my mission trip to Jamaica. The people there are so laid back as they allow life to happen. They go with the flow. "No problem, mon! Only situation." "No worries, mon!" Two quotes you will commonly hear in Jamaica as they just breathe and let life happen. Here in America, we get so wound up over the littlest tings in life or get so busy as we are constantly on the go-go-go-go-go that we forget to just breathe and let life happen. IF we simply relax and go with the flow, we will quickly learn to enjoy the littlest tings in life, including the simplest task of breathing... Someting we tend to take for granted until we realize how difficult it can be for the littlest ones in our lives, such as my twins, who struggle daily to learn how to breathe so life can happen...

So IF YOU JUST BREATHE, LIFE HAPPENS!