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Body: Abide - being held in every sense
Paperback
General ChristianityGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does it mean to meet God in the body, not in spite of it, but through it?
In Body: Abide - Being Held in Every Sense, Helen Swierszcz Moore offers a deep meditation on Christian faith as an embodied reality. Woven from poetry, theological reflection, and Scripture, this book traces the story of redemption as it is lived and known in flesh and breath, hunger and rest, wounds and healing.
Written in one continuous movement, Body explores seven interwoven themes-Flesh, Wounds, Given, Risen, Remain, Remembered, and One body-inviting readers to consider the Incarnation not as a distant doctrine, but as the very means by which God meets us. Here, the body is not an obstacle to holiness, but the place where holiness is encountered.
Through meditative prose and carefully crafted verse, Moore reflects on:
The Incarnation as God's deliberate choice to enter human limitation
Christ's wounds as retained testimony, not erased failures
Communion as bodily remembrance, not symbolic abstraction
Dependence as the heart of discipleship
Abiding as lived, moment-by-moment presence rather than effortful discipline
Resurrection as continuity, not erasure, of our embodied story
This book slows the reader down-calling attention to posture, breath, sensation, memory, and habit-and invites a deeper attentiveness to the way God forms us through ordinary, physical life.
Scripture is woven throughout, as a living witness, grounding each reflection in the biblical story of a God who became flesh, bore wounds, broke bread, and remained present by His Spirit.
Body will resonate with readers who:
feel uneasy with disembodied or purely intellectual faith
long for a deeper theology of suffering, healing, and presence
appreciate poetry that is doctrinally rooted and emotionally honest
seek a slower, more attentive approach to spiritual formation
want language that honours weakness without romanticising it
Ultimately, Body is an invitation-to abide. To remain. To stop striving and learn, again and again, how to receive life as a gift.
This book does not ask you to escape your body.
It asks you to bring it with you.
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