Coming Home to Your Body
Rediscovering the sacredness of being human
There is a deep disphoria abroad in the world now.
You sense it in the restlessness of people who no longer know how to dwell peacefully within themselves. So many are searching for identity, longing to belong somewhere within their own lives, yet finding themselves caught between voices that fracture them rather than heal.
And within this, we have become strangers to the sacredness of the body.
Bodies have become something to give away to anything we desire and modify in any way we choose.
And yet the Christian vision begins with blessing:
the quiet, astonishing blessing of creation itself.
The body, your body, is not an accident of matter, nor a prison for the soul, nor a burden to escape. It is the living threshold through which we encounter the world, one another, and God. To be human is not a mistake in need of correction, but a sacred invitation into relationship, communion, and love.
Scripture tells us we are made in the image of God. Not abstractly, but bodily — breathed into life, formed from the earth, held within the goodness of creation. And in Christ, God enters human flesh completely, sanctifying our humanity from within rather than abandoning it. And Jesus calls us to receive an understanding of all we are, including our bodies, from Him.
There is something profoundly healing in being re-membered, re-joined to this, to Him.
In a culture of confusion and dislocation, perhaps one of the great spiritual tasks of our time is to learn again how to receive ourselves with reverence; to inhabit our humanity, our bodies, not with dislike but with gratitude.
On 20 June, I will be leading a one-day gathering at Waverley Abbey exploring embodiment, identity, sexuality, discipleship, and the Christian understanding of what it means to live as people created by God and called beloved.
Hosted by Waverley Abbey, the day will offer space for reflection, conversation, learning, and prayerful engagement with some of the deepest questions shaping our age.
For those in the UK who may wish to attend, details are at the link here:
👉 Your body, God’s design: clarity for a confused world👈
And for those further away, some of these reflections may still find you where you are as I post about them.
The longing beneath all our striving is not merely to define ourselves, but to come home to ourselves — to discover that beneath all confusion and noise, there remains within each life a quiet place where God still whispers blessing.