“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret place of the steep pathway, Let me see your form, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your form is lovely.”
What comes to your mind when you hear those words?
As a survivor of breast cancer, someone who has been through a bilateral mastectomy, the issue of “form” can be painful and challenging. I have lived with a “breastless chest” for over eight years now. Being breastless is regarded by many, in a negative and painful light. There is a life, being breastless that is not tragic, full of despair. I embrace my form, adopting the “breastplate of righteousness.”
The Most High has made all the difference. He calls us to have “lovely forms,” no matter what they look like.
You and I are not “disfigured.”
“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness.”
Ephesians 6:14
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...”
