breathing God.

so i was talking to my friend last night online.
first of all, i have to tell you about this guy.
a really good guy who has just had to deal with many difficulties lately.
as tough as i know it has been for him, he's been keeping strong.
i wish he could be around again, just because he's one of the few who
really radiated God's love at this school. i'm glad we're friends. :]]
but one thing that always impresses me is the faith this guy has in God.
i talk to him and i always get some kind of inspiring little message from him.
He will tell me not to worry about things because God's got it under control,
or he will say that sometimes he feels alone, but he knows that God always has his back.
i admire that in him and i feel that he is definitely someone God has sent to encourage me.

now back to my point,
i have been pretty stressed about school, career choice, and life itself lately.
i was talking to him just now and he said something that really caught my attention.

"okay, close your eyes for 30 seconds and take deep breathes. focus on the breaths like make sure your mind is focused on the sound of air leaving and entering your body. and when your done tell me how you feel."

i did this and he talked about how HE feels when he does the same thing.

"there is this thing that people back in bible days used to say or something that when God breathed the breath of life into adam that he spoke his name "YAHWEH" into his breath. now i want you to do the same thing again but when you inhalen i want you to imagine the sound of the "yah" and when you exhale imagine the sound of "weh" and tell me what you think."

so again, i did this, and surprisingly i felt extremely comforted. which is exactly what i told him.

"its because when we take deep breaths to calm ourselves down were saying "yahweh" the one name that just means God in itself, nothing more and nothing less. so when we breath we breath God"

when i told him i was going to write this down because it is very encouraging he said..

"do that and remember it, whenever your felling stressed remember that your very breath is calling God's name.. i think God did that on purpose haha. God's smart like that. You know he knew that we would fall but he set up ways for us to communicate and find him if we want to, like some kind of national treasure type of thing haha."

all in all,
i have come to the point where it's as though i can not stress anymore.
i've reached the limit and my only option is leaving it up to God.
i'm so thankful that i have had the chance to meet someone who can show this to me.
sometimes, we just need that reassurance that God is there for us, no matter what.