Paul reminds: 'Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?' Your body is sacred space.
I grew up hating my body. I was overweight, awkward, dysphoric about being male when I felt female. I treated my body like a prison to escape, not a temple. I starved it, cut it, medicated it. The thought that it was God's dwelling place was absurd to me.
Transition and therapy slowly shifted that. I began to see my body as something to steward, not escape. To tend and care for. That's what a temple is—sacred space that you maintain with reverence. I'm learning to live in my body instead of being at war with it. To recognize it as the place where God dwells. That changes how I treat it, how I treat others' bodies, how I understand sexuality and identity.
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