“We awaken in Christ’s body as Christ awakens our bodies, and my poor hand is Christ, He enters my foot, and is infinitely me.
I move my hand, and wonderfully my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him (for God is indivisibly whole, seamless in His Godhood).
I move my foot, and at once He appears like a flash of lightning. Do my words seem blasphemous? — Then open your heart to Him
and let yourself receive the one who is opening to you so deeply. For if we genuinely love Him, we wake up inside Christ’s body
where all our body, all over, every most hidden part of it, is realized in joy as Him, and He makes us, utterly, real,
and everything that is hurt, everything that seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful, maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged, is in Him transformed
and recognized as whole, as lovely, and radiant in His light he awakens as the Beloved in every last part of our body.”
~St. Symeon the New Theologian
(Image: St. Symeon the New Theologian as a Christ-Bearer)
