Hello to all you bloggers out there!

I am new to the blog world. My friend Julie has been telling me about this for the longest time and I am finally trying it out.

I call my blogspot Breathe Life because I am at a point in my life that requires me to do just that. Seriously, we all go through so many hard times that it feels as if you just can't catch your breath. When did this thing called life start literally making it hard to breathe? For me it is much more than the world we live in that makes it hard to catch my breath. It is a disease that has literally taken my breath and life, as my family and friends knew it, away. As a believer in Jesus Christ though, I can BREATHE LIFE. It has taken two diseases at a very young age of 28 (oops, I forgot I just turned 29) to be able to breathe life as I should. Who needs lungs anyway? I have severe end stage emphysema in the lower lobes of both lungs, and another unknown rheumatologic disease. I have been able to, in the last two months, enjoy this life that I have been given. I feel that my biggest struggle at this moment is feeling as if I am "doing something" with my life. Many people I have heard of with diseases are able to at some point do the things in life that they couldn't do before. I feel as if that stuff is not important. So what, I don't climb a big cliff, don't sky dive, or even run a marathon. I laugh with my kids, hug my husband, and get annoyed with myself for not being able to call all my friends on a regular basis. When did life become caring more for the marks one makes in their "personal best" list anyway? I have to be content with not being able "to do" just things in this life, and that is what this Blogspot will be, breathing life everyday no matter how "normal" it may appear. My commitment is to Christ's will for this life, not mine.

I am excited to meet many people in this spot and learn what you do to breathe life. Thanks Julie for the idea of blogging!

Julie O.