{"id":4031,"date":"2013-04-07T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2018-07-17T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T22:02:15","slug":"sunday-silliness-and-mental-health-break-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/04\/sunday-silliness-and-mental-health-break-breathe.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Silliness and Mental Health Break- &#8220;Breathe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful spring day in Atlanta, Georgia and this song (see below Youtube clip) by Telepopmusik kept me moving on today&#8217;s morning jog.<\/p>\n<p>Other things that happened this week:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fellow saint and sinner Paul (a.k.a. known as &#8220;hubby&#8221; to this saint and sinner) queried, in response to the post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/04\/dating-game-jesus-and-eligible-bachelors-via-susan-patton.html\">The Dating Game Jesus<\/a>, whether I&#8217;m doing the very thing I critique in proponents of the Gnostic Gospels&#8217; presentation of Jesus- namely, exercising too much imaginative liberty with the historical Jesus. I would retort that the difference here is that I&#8217;m very aware that a Jesus who plays the dating game is very much the product of my own tongue-and-cheek humor and nothing more. I&#8217;m not sure the same could be said of those on a mission to reconstruct Jesus based on the Gnostic Gospels&#8217; presentation of Him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Then on Friday I got a voice-mail message from the director of the Atlanta Speech School, the premiere school in our town for children with learning disabilities; with a highly trained teaching staff, state-of-the-art curriculum and low teacher-to-student ratio for individually tailored learning plans, the school can offer only a few available slots each year for prospective new students.\u00a0 &#8220;Our committee was in unanimous agreement that Samantha would be well served here and we would like to offer her a position in the four-year-old class,&#8221; went the message. When I heard that, I cried. Tears of joy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official video for &#8220;Breathe&#8221; with the hope that you, too, will &#8220;breathe&#8221; and &#8220;just believe.&#8221; And may the breath of God fill you up, so that your minds and hearts might be renewed in all manner of good thing.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, what&#8217;s with the green powder in the video? See below. Sci-fi, Euro surrealism aside, I&#8217;m enjoying the beat and the lyrics:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Telepopmusik - breathe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_5XfAYZAA7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful spring day in Atlanta, Georgia and this song (see below Youtube clip) by Telepopmusik kept me moving on today&#8217;s morning jog. Other things that happened this week: &#8211; Fellow saint and sinner Paul (a.k.a. known as &#8220;hubby&#8221; to this saint and sinner) queried, in response to the post, The Dating Game Jesus,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1589,68,43],"tags":[1681,1531,1683,1125,1684,204,1682],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability-2","category-grace","category-humor","tag-breathe","tag-atlanta-speech-school","tag-disability-and-faith","tag-gnostic-gospels","tag-jesus-and-mary-magdalene","tag-mental-health","tag-telepopmusik"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunday Silliness and Mental Health Break- &quot;Breathe&quot; - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/04\/sunday-silliness-and-mental-health-break-breathe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunday Silliness and Mental Health Break- &quot;Breathe&quot; - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s a beautiful spring day in Atlanta, Georgia and this song (see below Youtube clip) by Telepopmusik kept me moving on today&#8217;s morning jog. 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