In preparation for the next leg of your story, remember that your body is God's vehicle and instrument.  Your body is the means by which God's mission walks through time and space wherever you go.  St. Paul (1Corinthians 3:16) asks us if we know (unbelievable as it may seem) that WE are EACH God's temple.  

Well, I don't know about you, but sometimes I tend to forget that!  Consider this blessing, written and offered by Jan Richardson on The Painted Prayer Book.  

Blessing the Body

This blessing takes

one look at you

and all it can say is

holy.

Holy hands.

Holy face.

Holy feet.

Holy everything

in between.

Holy even in pain.

Holy even when weary.

In brokenness, holy.

In shame, holy still.

Holy in delight.

Holy in distress.

Holy when being born.

Holy when we lay it down

at the hour of our death.

So, friend,

open your eyes

(holy eyes).

For one moment

see what this blessing sees,

this blessing that knows

how you have been formed

and knit together

in wonder and

in love.

Welcome this blessing

that folds its hands

in prayer

when it meets you;

receive this blessing

that wants to kneel

in reverence

before you:

you who are

temple,

sanctuary,

home for God

in this world.