To Be Embodied

What does it mean to be embodied? Doesn’t it mean to be given form? We have been gifted with a particular body. It is who we are in part—but not the whole story.

Form implies content. And when form and content are wedded, an intrinsic grace emerges where beauty is revealed. To mature into such beauty takes mellowing time.

Our bodies can help us and can be avenues of prayer, for God is there in us closer than our hands or our feet. Having bodies we are invited to be incarnated spirit. We can come to learn to be conscious of our bodies as holy, as homes for spirit. That awareness alone can change how we live...


...M E D I T A T I O N

New light.
Just under the blinds, a sliver of light.
The light declares it is a new day—
a first day—
the only day available—
none other...


Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris