Weekly Musing

The Body is Not Part of a Hierarchy -

I recently realized that I’ve held the belief that my body is part of a hierarchy. As a result, it makes sense how I’ve mistreated my body as I sought to keep my body "in its place”, which was at the bottom of the hierarchy. I’ve done this because this belief was taught to me by mainstream institutional religion and modeled to me at a young age, communicating to me that God ranks and measures me and my body. The notion that I AM would act, look, think, or feel abusively, harshly, or dismissively toward me, any part of me, is an astounding lie that, like all lies, is rooted in the slanderous separation lie.

Instead, what if I choose to accept I AM’s invitation to radically and lovingly embrace and accept all of me – body, soul, and spirit, and all of my experiences, sensations, emotions, and thoughts? Not accept in terms of all of those being the truth but in terms of valuing, seeing, and relating to -- just like I AM does -- rather than ignoring, shaming, abandoning, or resisting (things I AM never does).

I AM says that there is nothing wrong with or in me. What if I agree with I AM about this? I AM is Love, and Love never forces, minimizes, abuses, rejects, dismisses, abandons, or demands evidence or performance.

What if I can live from Love who already abides in, enlivens, energizes, and empowers me?

What if I can let the Holy Spirit transform the beliefs and patterns of dismissing or resisting my body, experiences, emotions, and thoughts so that I live from the loving relationship already alive in me?