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Bread of Life and Cup of Promise, You are my daily nourishment. Your word and your presence give me life, reviving me in my moments of struggle, doubt, and despair. Your love flows through me and over me, blessing me inside and out, body, soul, and mind.
Ask
In this prayer for weight loss, for health and wholeness, help me to feel comfortable in my own skin, for an ease in mobility, both physically and spiritually. I feel stuck. Help me, God, to love myself as I am, as you love me.
Listen
I remember how you sustained the Israelites in the desert, mana falling from heaven, blessing them with both food and your faithfulness made touchable, tasteable. Your love and presence became digestible, became part of them. You continue to offer yourself to us, nourishing us, sustaining us in our wanderings, ultimately out of the desert and into freedom.
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God of Life, bless me on this continuous journey of health and wholeness. May the love I have for myself reflect your love for me. May love lead me to ever more movement, freedom, and growth. Holy Spirit, blow your winds of change over my life; increase my spirit in generosity, enlarge my faith and my practice of mercy, to others and myself. Send me forth in mission, in sound body and spirit.
Reflect
You provide for me, sustain me. Continue to nourish me, Jesus, as I seek greater balance in my life, through moderation and movement. Buoyed up by your love and encouragement, I go forth rejoicing. Following you, I take pride in my steps, and I continue on.
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