Trying to be Honest - my own ponderings about my body

For Making Me a Woman

(by Marty Conner in Woman's Uncommon Prayers.)

For making me a woman

in what still so often

seems a man's world,

I thank you.

Because you taught me by example

that power is your gift

and not my possession.

For giving me a body

thought it sometimes fails me

and is not all I wish it was

or rather, a good deal more

than I wish it was,

I thank you.

Because you taught me

that I am much more 

than my body

and yet my body is 

your holy temple.

For calling me to be

more than I believe I can be,

and less

than I sometimes pretend I am,

I thank you.

Because you taught me 

that being is more than doing,

that who I am

and whose I am

are more important than

what I do 

or what I have.

For all that you are 

Creator,

Redeemer,

Sanctifier,

Great "I Am,"

I bless you

as you have so greatly blessed me.

This poem touches me and speaks almost perfectly to the heart of how I see my life, and how I have experienced God. I will write more - I am going to take two or three blogs to talk about my own love/hate affair with my body. I would love to publish your thoughts too, my friends. Send them to me if you like.