From yesterday

In preparation for the write 31 days challenge, I've been trying to be more intentional about writing down a thought or two about my practice. 

Today, during my practice, if I was getting off focus, I returned to the Les Leventhal questions - Do you like the experience you're having in your body? Are you grateful for it? - And for me, of course, it's also a Jesus question, am I thankful for this moment, for this breath, for this newness of life? I also figured out deaf man's pose to camel. I felt it, and it went. From a constriction pose to a heart opening one, from closed to open. It felt like breathing life into death. This is what Jesus does for my poor, needy, wandering soul. 

1. To God be the glory, great things he hath done!  
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, 
who yielded his life an atonement for sin, 
and opened the lifegate that all may go in. 

Refrain: 
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, 
let the earth hear his voice!  
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, 
let the people rejoice! 
O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son, 
and give him the glory, great things he hath done! 

2. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, 
to every believer the promise of God; 
the vilest offender who truly believes, 
that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. 
(Refrain) 

3. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, 
and great our rejoicing thru Jesus the Son; 
but purer, and higher, and greater will be 
our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. 
(Refrain)