Body

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.