Monday, April 02, 2007
I Am Grateful For My Body
So many in this world, particularly women, struggle with body image and an obsessive desire to somehow measure up to this cultures' idea of physical beauty. Everywhere we look there are images of impossibly thin bodies and messages that we are not good enough as we are. These messages come from companies who want us to believe that we will feel better about ourselves if we spend money on their products. The trick is, even if we reach our goal weight, even if we look like those magazine covers and have all those fancy products, our discontent, our ugliness our unworthiness may remain. When are we ever satisfied? Is it possible to feel good about ourselves however we look, with whatever body we have been given?
Is it not an insult to God to be so ungrateful? Are we not Diving beings, created perfectly, given the perfect bodies for our learnings here? How do we forget that? I, for one, would like to learn to be grateful for this body that I have been given, or perhaps even chosen. Today I will try to do this. Each time that I look in the mirror and do not like what I see, each time that I feel my clothing may be a little tighter than I would like, if I am tempted to look at another and compare myself to her, I will remember to be grateful for all that I have. This is my committment today.
// posted by Sacred Truth @ 6:27 AM 
