Blog originally posted here: www.nourishedlivingnow.com/my-body/
I AM NOT defined by this body. Not this belly or this cellulite or…
I am NOT defined by someone else’s rules about what it means to be sexy or important or lovable or powerful or successful.
I am not these thoughts that can so easily plague me – I’m too fat to wear this, I’m not attractive enough to talk to those people, I’m not good enough to stand up and be heard.
AND, this body, this is my home, this is where and how I experience my life. This is how I see and hear and feel the world. This body is how I taste and move and touch and love. This body is NOT who I am and yet it is how I know that I am…ALIVE
This body holds me here.
I have hated this body, blamed it for why I can’t have what I want, do what I want, be who I want to be.
I have starved and stuffed it. I have neglected it completely with months of lethargy. I have pushed it through injuries and ignored it’s pleas for rest only motivated towards goals of miles and away from pounds.
And this body holds me here always whispering truth.
I want to eat
I want to play
I want to touch
I want to cry
I want to see and hear and be seen and heard
I want to feel
I want to serve
I want to love
My mind wants to know why and how
And my body is here, right now, ALWAYS, holding the truth of this moment, the only thing that is ever REAL
I am not defined by this, and I am so blessed by this.
“The mystery of Christ is revealed, and the Christ “comes again,” whenever you are able to see the spiritual and the material coexisting, in any moment, in any event, and in any person.” Richard Rohr
