Freedom in Lent - Day 20

As someone who has spent most of their adult life wrestling with body image, the discovery of dance (watching and doing) about seven years ago was a liberation for me. In terms of my spirituality it was a rediscovery of embodiment, of being 'fearfully and wonderfully made' whatever size, shape, colour, ability, or age we are. 

All this comes from our Christian faith being an 'Incarnational' faith, a faith deeply rooted in God's love and intimate connection with the embodied. Bodies are beautiful, large and small, fit and not so much, hairy or smooth, male, female, genderfluid, trans, non-binary, old, young. And for me one of the most beautiful expressions of this is in dance. So I am grateful for Jon Bastiste's joyful expression of this in the music video below - Freedom

For it was you who formed my inward parts;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
   Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
   My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
   intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
   all the days that were formed for me,
   when none of them as yet existed.
How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
   I come to the end—I am still with you.

                                                 Psalm 139.13-18