Agradecimento pela vida: o dom de respirar e existir

O dom do fôlego que sustenta o dia

Agradecer pela vida começa no instante em que você para e percebe a própria respiração. Estar vivo hoje não é obra do acaso nem do próprio esforço, mas de um sopro contínuo que Deus renova a cada instante.

Antes de qualquer palavra ou afazer, o corpo já recebe o sustento divino. No silêncio de quem se recolhe, o simples ato de respirar se torna a primeira oração.

6 Let everything that has breath praise Yah!

Praise Yah!(Psalms 150:6)

13 For you formed my inmost being.

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to you,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful.

My soul knows that very well.

15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you,

when I was made in secret,

woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my body.

In your book they were all written,

the days that were ordained for me,

when as yet there were none of them.(Psalms 139:13-16)

33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live.

I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

34 Let my meditation be sweet to him.

I will rejoice in Yahweh.(Psalms 104:33,34)

Quando a vida renasce da angústia

A gratidão mais profunda costuma brotar dos dias em que as forças pareceram se esgotar por completo. Quando o peso da caminhada silencia os planos, reconhecer que Deus sustentou os seus passos transforma o medo em alívio sereno.

1 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,

and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you,

and you have healed me.

3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.

You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.(Psalms 30:1-3)

58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.

You have redeemed my life.(Lamentations 3:58)

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.

The earth barred me in forever;

yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.

7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.

My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.(Jonah 2:6,7)

O reconhecimento do que sustenta o cotidiano

No ritmo veloz das tarefas, a mente se inclina a notar apenas o que ainda falta construir ou resolver. A Escritura convida a pousar os pés no chão, contemplar o alimento à mesa e lembrar quem é a fonte de cada dia vivido.

10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.(Deuteronomy 8:10)

3 Know that Yahweh, he is God.

It is he who has made us, and we are his.

We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

and into his courts with praise.

Give thanks to him, and bless his name.(Psalms 100:3,4)

7 How precious is your loving kindness, God!

The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.

You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

9 For with you is the spring of life.

In your light we will see light.(Psalms 36:7-9)

Uma existência guardada em Cristo

Agradecer pela existência é acolher não apenas os dias de sol, mas a graça invisível que envolve cada respiração. A vida encontra repouso quando descansamos na certeza de que estamos guardados nas mãos do Criador.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,(Ephesians 1:3)

12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.(Colossians 1:12-17)

15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!(2 Corinthians 9:15)

1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart.

I will tell of all your marvelous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in you.

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.(Psalms 9:1,2)

1 Praise Yah!

Praise Yahweh, my soul.

2 While I live, I will praise Yahweh.

I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.(Psalms 146:1,2)

20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;(Ephesians 5:20)

Oração de agradecimento pela vida

Respire fundo e solte a pressa por um instante antes de falar com Deus:

Senhor, eu paro agora e respiro na tua presença. Obrigado pelo fôlego deste dia, pelo corpo que me sustenta e pelo teu cuidado silencioso que nunca me deixou faltar o essencial. Onde houve cansaço, tu foste abrigo; onde houve incerteza, tua mão me sustentou. Recebe a minha existência como ela é hoje, com suas alegrias e suas fragilidades. Eu descanso em ti e te agradeço pelo simples dom de viver. Amém.