What it means to be a woman

A Deeper Story is one of my favorite blogs....a community of real women, talking about really hard issues.  Abortion, divorce, abuse, infidelity, marriage, eating disorders....so many issues that we, as women, deal with today, in this broken world.  What does it all mean? How do we make sense of it all?  and even more importantly, where does God fit into this mess?

One of today's posts is one woman's story of why she starved herself as a child/teenager, and how she is moving beyond the self-hatred , to see her body as something beautiful.  She discusses how women are so hard on ourselves, and on each other, how we wrongly lift up our bodies and are continually dissatisfied that they are not what they could never be.  We demand perfection...knowing, but not truly knowing, that it is not possible.

She states,

where is the tender perspective?

where is the grace?

towards flesh which Bible says is here today, gone tomorrow, and did we really expect our bodies to save us? skin, but a tent for the souls that matter. a tent erected by holy creator-hands, and it will wear and tear and someday, fold, but it’s a tent declared a temple and so we need honor it sacred.

trace it with loving hands and marvel at the curves which tell our story. smile into the mirror and watch the crow’s feet land.

for God is incarnate in our sinew and muscle. and it is God who says we are loved, and we are lovely, and God does not lie. His is the image we hide in the closet.

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