The Miracle of Respiration

The Miracle of Respiration What do you need most at this very moment? A good education? A good job? A career? Money? Every individual sets out goals that are important to him or her ... Some are short term ... And others long ... Yet not one of these needs is as important as one blessing you possess at every moment ... Breathing ... It has been 39 seconds since this film began. If you had been unable to breathe for 39 seconds ... You would have given up all you owned in order to be able to breathe again ... In another minute or so you would have lost consciousness ... Brain death would follow in another two or three minutes, and your life would be at an end ... You have now taken some 16 breaths since this film began ... You will have taken another 200 or so by the time it ends ... And you will see what a great blessing breathing is and how each one of the systems which allow you to breathe is a great miracle. And you will witness examples of God's art of creation in your body. THE MIRACLE OF BREATHING Breathing ... This process, which seems so simple and which very few people ever think about, is actually the first link in a miracle ... Every cell in our bodies needs the oxygen provided by breathing ... The beating of your heart, the movements of your muscles, cell division, thought ... None of these would be possible without oxygen. One breath is enough for oxygen to enter the body ... A deep breath is of course even more effective ... The oxygen in that breath will quickly reach the lungs, Where it will board vehicles specially designed for it. These vehicles will spread the oxygen throughout the body, And it will represent the source of life for each of the 100 trillion or so cells in the body ... Let us now have a close look at this flawless mechanism which goes into action at birth and never stops as long as we live.