Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 7)

We must, therefore, prepare our hearts and bodies to serve him under the guidance of holy obedience. (From para. 7 of the Prologue to Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

It seems to me that as I get older and, I hope, wiser, I also become more embodied.  "God has skin", as I recently read, and I experience that truth in the incarnational nature of meditation, in the growing awareness of the force that creates and sustains my physicalness. Embodiment is a kind of consciousness it seems, that guides me to care for my body in a way that honors its divine element, and prepares my body for loving service.