We are temples.

This is how we choose to honor,
how we become devoted.
Though we may sink in our
skin, feeling that it ambushes
honest intentions,
we must drive
light and purity outwards.

We are given navigation
and we must lead others
to shore.

You and I are not ships
toppled over each other
for competition of whose
nets can reach the furthest-
do not scrape away your
humanity,
do not wallow in pitiful
thoughts
for what we hold inside is
what inspires beauty.

Do not be weighed down
by desires of the flesh,
for life isn't about pleasing
or satisfying those
temptations that try
and anchor you
downwards.

Be like temples, not like
steel hooks that philander
with many ideas of living.

Live and live purely,
welcoming others to a
place of reverence where
we learn what is truly
sacred.

-
Written 1/19/14

Inspired by this quote from Scripture:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."