Contemplative Summer Week Seven: Contemplating the Body

Raised Catholic

As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week seven is all about the body. As you choose a system or movement of the body to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Article: What Does it Mean to Crucify the Flesh, by gotquestions.org

2. Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel A. van der Kolk

3. Article: Body and Spirit As One, by Fr. Richard Rohr for Center for Action and Contemplation

4. Cover: I Hope You Dance, by Chris Stapleton

5. Video: 7 Minute Body Scan from The Mindful Christian

Romans 12:3-8

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.