This month's open door
A song for remembering the body as a sanctuary.
This chapter gathers the original garden demo, a studio reflection, the lyrics, and a short teaching on the chordal pulse that carries the song.
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My Body Is A Temple
A devotional song about returning to the body after years of asking it to carry too much.
Reflection excerpt
“This song began as a promise to stop abandoning the body when life became loud.”
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The day the song arrived
The first melody came after a long walk at dusk, when the air was cooling and the whole body felt like it was finally allowed to exhale. Larisa recorded the chorus on her phone before the words were complete. What stayed was the rhythm: steady, grounded, almost like a hand on the heart.
In the studio, the song kept asking for less. Less polish, less armor, more breath. The final arrangement leaves space around the voice so the listener can feel the quiet return inside it.
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My body is a temple
My breath is a door
I come back to the altar
I do not leave anymore
Stone by stone I remember
Bone by bone I return
In the quiet of the morning
I let the old fire burn
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Jonah
I played the chorus after the tutorial and it changed how I heard the recording.
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On My Body Is A Temple
The phrase “my breath is a door” stayed with me all week.
On Water Heal Me
I listened beside the creek near my house. It felt like a blessing.
This landed right in my chest. The lyric about not leaving anymore feels like a vow.