Miracles News

October-December, 2011

The Holy Purpose of the Body

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan How is the body seen through the ego’s eyes?

I see my body as the face of sin and death. I see my body as a home for parasitic thoughts of death and attack, robbing me of my sustenance. I see a fleshly casing and covering that is filled with sin, death and disease. My body is afraid of death, for this will be the demise of me. I will be wiped from existence as my body sickens and retreats into dust; for the dust too will vanish and there will be nothing left of me — the body telling me that I have never existed. My greatest fear comes upon me at death — the fear that I am not real. And if I am not real, then there must not be a God.

A body such as this — leaping for joy one day and falling prey to sickness the next. Who is this God who doesn’t know me? Who is this God who has captured my heart, but abandoned my body? Who is this God who stands by and watches my body attack itself with no hope of redemption? Who is this God who will not heal death, disease and fear? Though I pray all through the day and night, this wretched sickness does not leave me. I am left alone to wither of my own accord and decide my own death and the means for its coming. Who is this God who can’t see my pain? Who is this God who does not respond to my calls for help?

Who is this God? I ask. This is the god of death whom I have chosen to be my god of life. I have worshipped my body from far and near, in sickness and in health, in fear and in its leaping. The body has become a vessel of self-worship. The ego lies to me about its properties and longevity; calling me to invest more deeply in its salvation from inevitable death. The more it screams in pain and illness, the more I look to it for my salvation. I look for light in the darkness of death. I look for life in that which does not live. No matter how many times it seems to fail me, I still look for light in its deadened vessels.

I have chosen the body as my home away from Home and accepted it as a substitute for Reality. Holy Spirit, teach me. How do you see any usefulness in this trap of decaying flesh? In Jesus’ name I pray.

Well, my dear, you have bought into the dream of death hook, line and sinker! And the body will gladly commemorate your dream, honoring you for your misaligned belief in circumstances. I see another purpose for your body my dear.

The purpose of the body is to heal the world. What appears to separate can bring together all the seeming parts. Deceiving is the body as its health waxes and wanes, its appearances changing daily with the passing of the dream and its abilities to perform certain functions often seem to be carried along the whim of the winds.

Yes, yes, yes. How quickly we are deceived when we want to be deceived. How fervently we reach for the darkened images in the darkened room. How unwittingly we imagine ourselves to be only this. But I have good news for you my dear. Yes, I have good news. All news is Good News! I love you. God loves you. You love you; a part of you loves. Jesus loves you and Christ awaits your holy return.

I can’t speak to you of your body with the way you are thinking of it now — your definition of the body, your adherence to the value you place upon your body and your unwillingness to trust that your body is not your body at all. I Am your body. I Am your body. I Am your body. What does this mean? Now that you have decided for Christ, your body belongs to me. I will use your body for all intentions and purposes. All that is required of you is to let Me.

Notice how different your body is already feeling in this moment now that you have considered accepting this idea that I Am living inside of you and on this earth, in this world. Upon your acceptance, I Am your body. I notice you noticing this body. No judgments of the body exist in this place; only a recognition that this body does not belong to you. It is not an article, for articles belong to their owners. Your body is not owned; it is held in the hands, eyes and ears of Creation for those willing to let it be under the total, absolute guidance and Will of God. It serves a holy purpose.

Jesus demonstrated clearly the holy purpose of the body, so holy was his awareness of the body. A body in Christ walking on the earth serves Christ. Let yourself be free of this bondage to a worldly body; a body serving the world is not in true service. I come upon you in all holiness and freedom. Your decision for Christ is yours and yours alone; I cannot make it for you.

To decide for Christ is to decide for holiness. Jesus demonstrated the Christ decision. For you to surrender your body images to Christ’s vision is not a lost battle, but a glorification of Glory, a recognition of truth, a transcending into Transcendence.

Do not allow your faith to falter after a transcendent experience, for the world to which you return utters not a word of truth. Yet you bring truth with you upon your return. If you now look to the world to understand or appreciate or grasp truth, you are mistaken. However, the truth inside of you will awaken the truth inside your brothers and sisters. Truth walks in the world as it settles into your bones. It changes the world as it re-minds your memory of the Changeless. Stay close.

I cannot speak to you about exercise and healthy eating. I hear you thinking that question in your mind. But I will speak to you about how to allow Me to put the body to its greatest use all throughout your day. You will be told what to eat, how to move, how to play, how to work; all will be given you. Ask. Willingness is the only close attention to My Voice you will need. Put all bodily tasks in the service of I Am. Your greatest fear of dissolution will be absolved as your recognize truth in Reality; life in seeming death. Life awaits you.

Judgment is a mistaken thought for which you suffer greatly. Your greatest suffering is the missing out on how I Am calling you forth to your Self while you play in the playpen and holocausts of judgment. I await the fulfillment of your desire — to allow your Self to be set free; to be set free from all you think your Self to be.

Sickness is an opportunity to free yourself from body images and preconceived thoughts about the body. It is an entry way into greater freedom if your let it be so. What is important is to let the true purpose of the body be served by letting Me be your true purpose. The Spirit of God in you will guide you into ways of living that will serve a purpose that is now far beyond your recognition or perception.

Practice today. Practice giving up your images, purposes and thoughts about the body in favor of an experience of “I Am your body.” You will begin to notice your body taking on a different meaning. Feelings and sensations will change. Even when fear thoughts arise about the body, you will choose awareness of the presence of Love in the midst of the fear. Do not push away that which serves no real purpose for in doing so you “make it real.” Let it be. Let Being be with you during the fear. Let Timelessness consume time; Light consume darkness. There is a Safety free to all in the midst of apparent lack of safety. Do not push lack away. Do not attempt to rehabilitate it or manage it. Let it be; it does not know any better. Be present in One Who knows better, Who knows best, Who knows you. This is your True Self in God. This is you. I Am your body here to lead you. I Am your body, here to acknowledge the truth about you. I Am your body. I Am the Whole Purpose of the body.

When you think you are your body, you covet your neighbor’s soul. As you let Me be your body, I Am your neighbor’s soul.

Loving Body Meditation

My body is embraced by the Love I Am. I am enveloped in a sea of Love. God’s Love enfolds me like a blanket swaddling a baby. I identify my body as love. In looking out upon the sun-risen sky, I see the sky is a body; a body surrounded by the Love of God.

God’s Love is All Embracing; I feel God’s embrace loving my body and my body is a sea of Love. My Identity is Love. I am Love. I am a body of Love.

I am loving my body who is the body of Christ in the world. I am safe in God’s loving embrace. Safety rests all around me. My body is safe. I am safe in my true Identity as Love. I am Love. A light shines all around and throughout my body and I feel safe in its warm embrace.

Holy Spirit reveals, “I Am your body and I Am free within and all around your body.” The body is free as God breathes in me and I breathe in God.

All is Love. All is safe. God is safe in the presence of my body. God’s Love does not decrease in the presence of my body. God exists as Love in my body, all around my body and I experience the Beingness of Love within me.

I rejoice in this Beingness of Love in you, surrounding you, cradling you and Identifying you.

I am a source of Love as I am created of Love. You are a source of Love as you are created of Love. Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love. I am immersed in a pool of Love. I am wet with Love as its moist dew blesses all of me and kisses my lips as Its own. God in me, me in God.

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is author of the books Visions of Illumination, The Mentor Within and the inspiring new CD Album WNYHOO Now! Website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org

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