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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC?

© Rev. Marie Jones

Like work, we often get addicted to our bodies. We get all kinds of eating disorders and suffer from the effects of over-exercising. We go to plastic surgeons and risk our safety having blobs of fat sucked out of our tummies at shady facilities south of the border. We worry and stress and fret about what we eat, when we eat, why we eat. We look in the mirror and we hate ourselves.

We worship youth. Nobody wants to admit to this one, but it's an addiction we all suffer. Too much attention paid to the vehicle, and not enough to the kind of gas we fuel it with. Our bodies have been called temples, but we forget that it's not the temple that's worshipped. The worshipping goes on IN the temple. Our bodies are the means by which our spirit gets around this place.

Our bodies are the physical home to our spiritual being. Granted, a healthy body keeps us running in top condition. But when all moderation is lost to garish excess, whether it be food, exercise, surgery or just self-loathing, we suffer the consequences. Our health takes a nose-dive, right behind our self-esteem.

The body is our temple. But the temple isn't God.

Our society worships tight, supple bodies. Perfect skin. Perfect figures. Lean and vibrant energy. Nubile and pliant. Problem is, this kind of worship only digs our own graves for us. See, we're all going to get old. We're all going to die. And the more we pump up youth and put down age, the more suffering we inflict on our elderly, without realizing we ARE our elderly... someday.

The current teeny-bopper fixation in Hollywood and the media is fine and dandy, but does it have to exist to the complete denial, detriment and denigration of the power and wisdom of age? Do these entertainment industry youngsters realize that one day they, too, will be not-young anymore, and this youth-worship will come back to bite them in their cosmetically altered butts? Yeah, I'm sure they realize this, but hey, when you're young and making that much money who cares. Right? (See article on money worship.)

We sing the body electric, especially in the media-driven United States. Problem is, we sing a song that's got a life span. A song that always comes to an end. Bodies get old and blow fuses. Eventually, they shut down production altogether.

Spirit is the only thing that lives on.

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