The alive body of a present moment life.

Listening to the echo of my body
As it unfolds the tapestry of my life
The days of pushing it harder than it wanted to go
The days of asking more from it than it felt like it could give.

The many stages of a woman’s body
that demand a continual well spring of depth, resiliency and renewal.

As I passed through the many stages of change on the inside and out
from the hearing of the first tender cry of a newborn after a long painful passage,  to the weeping and wailing of letting go of the precious.
Oh my body an amazing wonderland
Of pain and delight.

Thankfully I have come home to rest in it with a respect and gratefulness for serving me Well in the journey of my Life.

My body I shall lay it down in stillness and loosen for a time
And welcome the softness of it to my Soul

~Lori Ellis~ McKinney (2015)