Gracious God, at my beginning, you breathed into me the breath of life, so that I would become a living soul.  I offer you my thanks for continuing to sustain me, day by day, with that breath of life.  Help me remember how precious a gift it is, and give me an awareness and attentiveness to my breath throughout the day.  Keep me from being so distracted with life's activities that I forget the one activity that makes all the others possible.  I ask this for the sake of your love.  Amen.