So glad that You’ve married breathing and prayer Left alone I’d know not what to say But since it is You that made me alive You have promised to help me to pray
Just as I’m living I’m calling on You When I breathe I am praying Your name I inhale the gentle wind ... Je-Ho-Vah Now my prayer-life cannot stay the same
“For the Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
Job 33:4
There is a fairly well-known idea in Jewish theology that God’s name YHWH is not actually pronounceable but is rather the sound of our breathing. Oh … the ripple effects of this thought! Learn more about this topic from Rabbi Arthur Waskow