| Loving Provider of all good things, who has shown your love and
affection for us your creatures by tenderly endowing us with the
physical apparatus for ecstatic pleasure and intense intimacy: Help us
to receive with joy what you have given us, to overcome the damaging
messages and hurtful experiences of our childhood and youth and the
harsh judgments we endure from others and from within ourselves today.
Give us the means to know and cherish our bodies and all their parts as
fully and completely as we try to know and honor our minds and spirits.
Free us to be the human beings you have created us to be—generous,
passionate, enthusiastic, exuberant, playful, eager to taste and feel
your goodness in our own bodies and in the ways we share loving touch
with others. For in committing our bodies to you and to your service, we
commit them to all the joyous possibilities for which you have created
them. What a good God you are!
AMEN! |