What Is Sacred

This has to be quick, I mean super quick; but...

Did you ever notice that Sacred and Scarred sound earily alike? Well, that's because I think you have to be scarred before you can realize what's sacred. Now, that scarring can be in a literal sense, like me having to have all of those surgeries which left behind physical scars--which in turn remind me every day of my strength and the miracle that is my life. My health is sacred to me because I have the scars to prove what happens when it's not. (Even though most of that back then was not in fact my fault, but I digress). You often have to lose something before you know what you have. Like, say, people often don't realize how much someone means to them until they're not around anymore. I don't mean they die, I just mean, when a friendship ends or something like that. Sometimes it goes in the opposite direction, you might have to go almost a lifetime (or at least a lifetime so far) without someone or something, to realize its sacredness when it finally does come around. Like me and my dad, for instance. I hold our relationship sacred now, and one of the reasons is because we didn't have the greatest one for years on end. The who's and how's and why's, however, are no longer important. What's important is that it's sacred to me now. My sisters, too, are sacred to me--they always have been. My whole entire family in general is sacred to me. My marriage is sacred, I may not always act like it, but at the end of the day, I do cherish my husband, I cherish our marriage and its place in my life, the experience of it and the things I'm learning from it--each and every day! Parts of my body are sacred--not just the sexual ones, but you body in general--and I treat it as such. That's one of my strong points. My relationship with God is sacred--that's a literal thing, right? Religiously or spiritually sacred. My meditation time is sacred. And I've discovered today, so is my writing time. Writing to me is sacred. And when something is sacred, we need to treat it as such. We need to honor it, respect it, cherish it. Marriage may not be everyone, but what marriage has taught me is that so much of the vows we say when we get married can carry over into other area of our lives. Obviously, we cannot, or at least are not supposed to, forsake others for our spouse--our spouse comes first; but what I'm saying is the whole premise of loving, honoring, cherishing, respecting...holding that marital union SACRED, that's a lesson that can carried over into every other facet of life. My writing is sacred to me. I feel that I have a story to tell, I have a compelling voice and something to say. My writing, therefore, is sacred. If my body and my health and my family are sacred, and my writing entails all of that, so too is my writing. Writing is sacred to me now, and I intend to treat it as such. For now, though, I must go. As much I'd love to keep writing, life is calling. I wish each of you a wonderful Wednesday!

Thank you Lord for the gift of showing me what is truly sacred in my life!

In Light N' Love,
-Sarah Liz :)