Breath of Heaven

A friend showed this to me a few years back and I fell in love. I think about it every year and want to share it with everyone around me. Needless to say then, I was totally excited to find it on youtube! Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant played during The Nativity video by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. I've included the lyrics, they are so beautiful. I don't think most of us really think of what it must have been like to actually be living the story of Mary and baby Jesus as we hear it so many years later. How scary it must have been for Mary never having had a child before. And to then be visited by an angel! To be inexperienced and innocent...and pregnant! To be told you are carrying the Son of God. And for those of us who have carried a child, I'm pretty sure we didn't take a long journey through the wilderness on a donkey! I just really think she was an amazing woman!!! The song alone is beautiful as is the video, but together it's heavenly! I hope you enjoy this as much as I do (link to youtube above).

Amy Grant - Breath Of Heaven Lyrics

I have traveled many moonless nights

Cold and weary with a babe inside

And I wonder what I've done
Holy Father, You have come

And chosen me now to carry Your Son

I am waiting in a silent prayer

I am frightened by the load I bear

In a world as cold as stone

Must I walk this path alone?

Be with me now, be with me now

Breath of Heaven, hold me together

Be forever near me, breath of Heaven

Breath of Heaven, lighten my darkness

Pour over me Your holiness for You are holy

Breath of Heaven

Do you wonder as you watch my face
If a wiser one should have had my place?

But I offer all I am

For the mercy of Your plan

Help me be strong, help me be, help me

Breath of Heaven, hold me together

Be forever near me, breath of Heaven

Breath of Heaven, lighten my darkness

Pour over me Your holiness for You are holy

Breath of Heaven, hold me together

Be forever near me, breath of Heaven

Breath of Heaven, lighten my darkness

Pour over me Your holiness for You are holy

Breath of Heaven, breath of Heaven

Breath of Heaven