'To live in these bodies, the bodies we have, and to not constantly pursue the bodies we don’t have, is our spiritual act of worship.' - lorewilbert
For the past year, I’ve been fighting two wars. The first is a book manuscript dealing with bodies, the incarnate Christ, and the exercising of physical touch in an over-sexualized world. The second battle is more personal: it’s a war with my own flesh. “This long struggle to be at home in this body, this difficult friendship,” the poet said of it. We Christians know the tension is a light one because these bodies are not our homes but as the old Spiritual says, we’re still “a passin’ through.
I have spent nearly 40 years trying to be the body I am not.
This past year, as I’ve worked on this book manuscript, I’ve also begun shedding this terrible cloak of pursuit and I’ve had to recognize the body beneath it.True worship of God starts and ends with seeing God in all his magnificent glory, but if we cannot see our utter inability to bothHim, knowing all, then our worship is faulty and flimsy.
To live in these bodies, the bodies we have, and to not constantly pursue the bodies we don’t have, is our spiritual act of worship. To offer these bodies as living sacrifices—not to burn on some altar for which there is no longer any need, but to live, truly live in sacrificial and embodied ways, this is worship. To submit to the bodies we have, and not the bodies we simply want, is to acknowledge that God is God and we are not. It is to acknowledge that He is sovereign and we are created.
For 90 years, nearly 100 if my grandmother’s genes were passed to me, I will embody this body. This is the one I will steward, love, lean on, and worship with. It is the only one I have, given to me by God to remind me I am not God, but I am made by Him with purpose, intention, and beauty.
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