Knowing the Wonder
by Flora Slosson Wuellner
Who Is My Body?
- "I am your friend and closest partner. Sometimes I am your mother and father. Sometimes I am your child. Always I am your lover and spouse.
- "I am the truth-teller. I witness to you your unknown self.
- "I am the faithful messenger and recorder of your memories, your powers, your hurts, your needs, your limits.
- "I am the stored wisdom and hurts of the ages and generations before you.
- "I am a gift-giver. Through me, you live and move in God's creation. Through me, you have your vital link with the rejoicing, groaning, travailing universe.
- "I am your partner in stress and pain. I carry much of your suffering, so your spirit does not need to carry it all alone.
- "I am the frontier you have barely explored and the eager companion who speaks to you every moment.
- "I am the manifestation of the miracle which is you. I am the ground of your deep powers.
- "I am the microcosm of the community that surrounds you. I am the microcosm of the universe in which you live.
- "I am the visible means by which you relate and unite with others.
- "I am one of the major ways by which God abides with you, speaks to you, touches you, unites with you.
- "Far from separating you from your spiritual life, I open it to you.
- "You can pray with me, for me, through me. I can pray also, in my way, when you cannot.
- "I am always in embrace with you, though sometimes you ignore me or even hate and try to harm me.
- "I will never leave you. I will be with you after death as your risen companion of clearer light and swifter energy in a different form. Only my outer appearance dies.
- "Together, in passionate unity, we will become the fully alive human being."
From Prayer and Our Bodies. Copyright © 1987 Flora Slosson Wuellner. Used by permission of Upper Room Books, Nashville, TN.
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