Meditation: The Body

"It is by the body that we come into contact with Nature, with our fellowmen, with all their revelations to us.  It is through the body that we receive all the lessons of passion, of suffering, of love, of beauty, of science.  It is through the body that we are both trained outward from ourselves, and driven inward into our deepest selves to find God.  There is glory and might in this vital evanescence, this slow glacierlike flow of clothing and revealing matter, this ever uptossed rainbow of tangible humanity.  It is no less of God's making than the spirit that is clothed therein."

George MacDonald 
from An Anthology of 365 Readings compiled by C.S. Lewis