Breath is to take in the world outside and welcome it. Or maybe God is like gravity, the phenomenon of mass made real when I’m rubbing my head after I’ve tumbled down the stairs thinking I had one ...

In John 20:21-22, Jesus said to His followers, “Peace be to you; just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy ...

and then breath returns to air. When “the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us,” Paul wrote to Titus (3:4–6), “not because of works done by us in ...