Today’s prompt is: Exhale<\/p>\n
Inhale\u2026exhale. Repeat.<\/span><\/p>\n From the moment we are born till our last breath we measure life by the number of breaths.<\/span><\/p>\n Always, the exhale signals the end of a breath.<\/span><\/p>\n We hold our breath in anticipation, in dread, and on exertion.<\/span><\/p>\n In labor, we measure the contractions and ride each wave by the way we inhale and exhale until new life enters the world and the process continues…inhale…exhale.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s an amazing process, fresh air loaded with oxygen brings life to us and the exhale removes the waste.<\/span><\/p>\n A forced exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n In goes the good air, out comes the bad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The forceful release of our breath can indicate relief, relaxation, concentration, and frustration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine that- a normal body function that no one thinks about reveals so much.<\/span><\/p>\n It is a barometer of feelings, that exhale.\u00a0 The telltale of what is going on inside.<\/span><\/p>\n That sigh at the end of the exhale reveals the truth of our feelings, belying our words of \u201cI\u2019m fine, really, I\u2019m just fine.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We mark time with that release of breath.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We watch loved ones slowly slip away with those last breaths until the last here on this earth.<\/span><\/p>\n But the first exhale gave life from God to Adam.<\/span><\/p>\n And the rest\u2026. Is our story.<\/span><\/p>\n The measure of our days is really a summation of all the exhales we experience.<\/span><\/p>\n It fills books, writes history,tells stories, leaves legacies and blessings and curses; it offers encouragement and signals defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n The tale of all that\u2019s occurred from that first gasp to the last.<\/span><\/p>\n What does your exhale reveal about you?<\/span><\/p>\n Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Genesis 2:7<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s prompt is: Exhale Inhale\u2026exhale. Repeat. From the moment we are born till our last breath we measure life by the number of breaths. Always, the exhale signals the end of a breath. We hold our breath in anticipation, in dread, and on exertion. In labor, we measure the contractions and ride each wave by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[86,89,84,33],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-minute-fridays","tag-5-minute-fridays","tag-exhale","tag-fmf","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}