a living being

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7

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Dust and breath. Not one or the other, but both. There is an animal nature in us...to protect ourselves, to feed ourselves, to reproduce ourselves...and all the chemical, physiological STUFF of our material bodies that make us that way. It is good, but it is not all. We are dust and...breath. Not just the breath that delivers oxygen to our lungs and keeps all those chemicals functioning, but the breath that is life and freedom. Freedom from the STUFF. Freedom to be vulnerable, to fast, to deny oneself...and to love.

So often though we treat people like dirt - just dust from the ground...dust without breath.

Was recently talking with a friend about whorehouses, prostitution, pornography... nice conversation right? but such things pervade our society - people being sold as a consumer product, people being used and abused. The whorehouse is the extreme example, but we buy and sell our friends and "loved ones" in a similar manner everyday. It is so hard to not treat people as something to entertain me, to distract me, to help me, to prosper me...so hard for me, me, me. I take a deep breath, and greet my friend again, hoping this time I will deny myself and love another. Hoping this time I will not be a slave to this animal instinct in me - to serve only me. Hoping this time to be free from me and love another...I think I'm gonna have to "hurt for it, work for it", but I'm convinced its worth it..how else can I be "a living being" (Gen 2:7)

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Well we hurt each other, than we do it again
You say love is a temple, love a higher law.
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter...and then you make me crawl!
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Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it...LOVE.
You don't always show it.
You wanna be the song, be the song that you hear in your head... LOVE."

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Love rescue Me!

U2:)