8d (edited) • Inspirations
RUACH: INSPIRATION IS LIFE
What breathes life into you?
In Hebrew, ruach carries the meanings of wind, breath, and spirit. The English word inspiration comes from the Latin “to breathe into.”
Held together, these words offer a contemplation:
to be inspired is to receive what helps us come ALIVE.
Hebrew gematria offers a deeper mystical connection for us to sit with.
Ruach carries the value 214. Or, the word for light, carries a value of 207. The space between spirit and light is 7, a number associated with the sacred rhythm of creation.
We might contemplate this relationship as light finding movement through spirit: what is received inwardly taking expression in the living world.
The light we receive becomes the life we share.
Sometimes inspiration arrives through a stirring of creativity.
Sometimes through the wind in the trees, a sacred conversation, or the quiet return to prayer.
Here, in MONASTICA, we invite room to notice these movements—to listen for what nourishes our capacity to love, to create, and to participate more fully in life.
How might inspiration become an embodied response:
a word of kindness?
a moment of courage?
a work of art?
a faithful act of care?
Pause. Notice your breath.
What is breathing life into you?
How might you carry that life into the world?
Please share, if you feel inspired😊
📸A photo from Women at the Well…our water ritual inspired life to come into areas of my body which carry tension, fear, and mis-trust.
My prayer is to trust more deeply with each life-giving breath.
To receive the waters of healing through each breath as a baptismal sacrament.
To be made anew from the deep well of knowing…God is here for me too.
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RUACH: INSPIRATION IS LIFE
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