Keeping our bodies fat and warm.

I once read in a missionary letter that the above is all people in the western world care about. I think this true but I would add one more thing, being entertained. The first two are taken to be rights, the same as the right to draw breath, and are generally taken for granted.
That's right I was thinking about breathing today. Lying in bed with the wife and 11 month old babe listening to their various rates of respiration I again remembered that breathing keeps us alive. Its not something we always think about but it must take place constantly.
I'm currently studying livestock feeding and in the course of it we consider the animal concerned maintenance energy requirement. How much energy it requires to walk and breathe and digest food etc. When an animal is lame it requires more energy to move about in a limping fashion and fight the infection and cant compete in the herd so well and consequently loses weight. All these are the same for human life and considering my own breathing has been some what restricted with asthama and allergy etc as well as being slightly lame its no wounder I get alittle tired but I don't know if I've lost any weight but I doubt that I will fade away entirely just yet.

Any how breathing is sometimes spiritualized by Godless religons " Breathe in justice , mercy and truth and breathe out hatred and cruelty and envy .." etc
The bible says simply " Everything that has breath praise the Lord! "


Gen 2:7
And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.