Scripture  

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (The Message)  

Didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place,  

the place of the Holy Spirit?  

Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please,  

squandering what God paid such a high price for?  

The physical part of you is not some piece of property  

belonging to the spiritual part.  

God owns the whole works.  

So let people see God in and through your body.

Refrain  

This body is not a burden—it is beloved.

Poem  

Cole Arthur Riley, from This Here Flesh 

“I believe in a God who made the body good.  

Who took on skin and bone  

and didn’t see it as a compromise.  

A God who touched and tasted,  

who bent down and breathed into dirt  

until it pulsed with sacred breath.  

To be spiritual is not to escape the body—  

it is to live more deeply in it.  

To inhabit it as God does:  

with love.”  

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