Day 5 - "flesh" by enfleshed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp enfleshed - poetry through lent en-us 2021-02-15 21:57:32 UTC 2023-01-25 21:02:53 UTC hello@padlet.com How to: enflesehd https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1207753041 2021-02-16 16:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1207753041 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226047732 During my angiogram, the line was put in my groin artery and threaded through my arteries into my brain to a minuscule vessel behind my eye. Did the surgeon get a glimpse of my soul and my relationship to my Lord? No, he just saw my flesh and all that is in my flesh. My soul is for God alone to see and know. ]]> 2021-02-22 12:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226047732 Other https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226056438 They say my flesh is more flawed than others’. That I cannot love, run or dance.

Nevertheless, nowadays, I look in the mirror and like what I see. If my very existence is defiance, so be it.

I say a silent prayer each time: to join the two sides and find as much contentment with my spiritual life.

]]> 2021-02-22 12:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226056438 Love in the rough spot https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226122870 I gentle pull down my child’s ear love and run a healing balm in the crevice where flesh meets bone, a spot made rough by nearly a year of mask-wearing.

How do we protect one another?

This love is made real in the tender folds of a child’s broken skin.]]> 2021-02-22 12:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226122870 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226321381 flesh sings, breathes, cries, dies
flesh needs, longs, aches, delights
flesh weaves me to you to we

-akb]]> 2021-02-22 13:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226321381 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226407777 To be in the body, my body;
To love the wounded, gifted flesh of self and others;
This is my soul's longing and belief.
HilaryC]]> 2021-02-22 13:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226407777 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226462957 i am not ashamed
or at least I want to love my flesh
if nothing else, it holds me
     and that is enough]]> 2021-02-22 14:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226462957 f https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226538793 2021-02-22 14:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226538793 flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226541751 my flesh is now fat
i am okay with the new
more to love, i laugh

- kjm ]]> 2021-02-22 14:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226541751 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226653362 Bodies contain life
All colors shapes and sizes 
Bring humanity]]> 2021-02-22 14:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226653362 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226670714 Frequent thoughts of my skin is saggy here, cracked there 
Winter blues has my heart sagging 
Tears drying out my face 
Purposeful thoughts to name and sit with my pain. 
I reframe. 
My flesh is strong and loved  
My heart is strong and loves 
My body is a miracle and she carries me through 
]]> 2021-02-22 14:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226670714 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226704115 My body survived your contempt
to become an anthology of elation

written in flesh.
Look me in the eye and tell me
why you think I deserve to feel 
ashamed 

of a body this 
fiercely triumphant.
]]> 2021-02-22 14:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226704115 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226880300 The Word became flesh affirming my abused flesh is still fresh.]]> 2021-02-22 15:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1226880300 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227242901 Flesh breaks, bones snap, knives cut, babies rip

Sensations of sheer joy and pure terror bound in these cells

Christ, our wounded healer makes it all holy and whole]]> 2021-02-22 16:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227242901 Belly https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227309142
My ample belly, an embarrassment 
consequence of my love of sweet things
I remember now and then that it is the consequence of love and sigh]]> 2021-02-22 16:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227309142 Ephesians 2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227446665 My flesh, my sin, my weakness, my dependence...
praise God for Baptism; praise God for diets.
(Praise God that Zoom focuses on our upper parts!)

]]> 2021-02-22 16:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227446665 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227453565 spirit infused flesh
with each cell a universe
pulsating delight ]]> 2021-02-22 16:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227453565 Flesh and Spirit https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227569578 Flesh’s pores breath life
Protect from harm
Yet when hurt, mend.
Flesh and Spirit embrace
Until released into eternity.]]> 2021-02-22 17:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1227569578 singing https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228157293 diaphragm, ribs, lungs
larynx, soft palate, nasal cavity
brain, heart, spirit, SOUND]]> 2021-02-22 18:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228157293 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228240926
The Word enfleshing
Gives us times of refreshing
And souls afreshing

WDRplus

]]> 2021-02-22 19:06:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228240926 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228316896 Love transforms the beloved's flesh - 
Bulges, veins, spots, scars, wrinkles,  hair,  and all - 
Into a thing of most exquisite beauty]]> 2021-02-22 19:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228316896 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228557057 My feet on the ground, feeling—through the earth’s crust—the rising and falling tides.
Breath—undoubtedly spirit—entering and exiting my lungs, circulating with my blood.
My conscious life, embodied and celebrated.
]]> 2021-02-22 20:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228557057 Flesh No More https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228610152 Mary died when we were deep into Lent
Ashes to ashes - literal, no way metaphorical
15 years later, the hollowness (hallowedness?) of the season and the memory of flesh touching flesh remain side by side]]> 2021-02-22 20:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228610152 while the spirit remains ethereal, the flesh is present, https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228634684 a reminder of who we are today and might be tomorrow]]> 2021-02-22 20:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228634684 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228708760 Truth: I have to try hard not to hate my flesh. 
I think I’m making progress.
But progress so far just means hating a little less or at least a little less often. 
]]> 2021-02-22 20:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228708760 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228875045 Word made flesh, the very stuff of us,
hallowing what has always been holy
in all its frailty, full of grace and truth. ]]> 2021-02-22 21:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228875045 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228951675 the sticky note on the bathroom counter that says 
"this body is a place of worship"
helps me see my flesh as holy and good]]> 2021-02-22 22:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228951675 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228969049 The Divine Soul lives within 
the flesh and blood
of my human body

CM

]]> 2021-02-22 22:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1228969049 flesh enflesehd https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229047537 Sweaty. Stinky. Sensual. Strange.
I hold it in contempt
while divinity cries “holy!”
]]> 2021-02-22 22:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229047537 Prodigal Spirit https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229087278 I am learning to be in my body again - gone so long I am now a visitor in my own home;
Despite my absence, She welcomes me with openness, healing, forgiveness, tenderness, rest, understanding, and a physical connection to all that is, was, and ever shall be;
Even though I have nothing to give Her in return.]]> 2021-02-22 22:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229087278 BATTLE FOR DOMINION https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229290907 Composed - impassioned, purposeful - impulsive, now - tomorrow.
Flesh houses spirit, spirit tames flesh.
Warring worlds unified within.

]]> 2021-02-23 00:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229290907 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229292838 I’ve touched live electrical lines and hardly remember them

One time - one finger’s touch - in one moment - probably unplanned - maybe not ‘best practice’ sticks with me

And I feel deeply for those who stay alone and untouched in service to the health of neighbors ]]> 2021-02-23 00:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229292838 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229327720 Incarnational
Body and spirit are one
Holy and Precious

]]> 2021-02-23 01:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229327720 Spirits in the World https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229393866 Our bodies are
spirits in the world,
free and fragile. 
Seeking touch, we reach out for reassurance. 
Seeking hope, we lift up 
in prayer,
spiritual sustenance.

~SJM]]> 2021-02-23 01:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229393866 Torn Repaired Healing https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229436207 2021-02-23 02:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229436207 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229441491 Flesh freaks me out
Legacy of a long-forgotten trauma

But 

if I carefully avoid noticing what I’m doing 
I love to dance
]]> 2021-02-23 02:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229441491 shimmering glory https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229449170 In fields delineated with poplar and cedar and hillocks, I stand still to let my belly stop, stop moving, let the breath catch up. 

Now, aged 43, I  can hear that potato dust laced wind roar from my lungs ... 

it is time to let the boreal whispers fade out the years where all I heard was that my body was not enough, when all she did wrong was take up space.]]> 2021-02-23 02:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229449170 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229454622 Forcing my mortal flesh to continue keeping silent

Hope waning while waiting to be witnessed

Unsure how else to be assured of existence
]]> 2021-02-23 02:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229454622 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229514411 Body spirit trap
Contains multitudes inside
Much more than skin deep. ]]> 2021-02-23 03:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229514411 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229678520 Oh, to have a hug
Before the one year mark
Of this pandemic ]]> 2021-02-23 04:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229678520 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229702741 The tenderness of it, the touch.
The loss and the longing.
When the world is too much.

dm

]]> 2021-02-23 04:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229702741 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229731956 You became flesh
You dwelt amongst us
You allowed yourself 
To be touched
You felt human tears
On your own human face

And now I must learn
My flesh is my word too
My actions are my statements
And your incarnation
dwells in my flesh

]]> 2021-02-23 04:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1229731956 Flesh https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1231952931 More than anything
I want to hug you tightly
and feel you hug back.]]> 2021-02-23 15:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1231952931 May my flesh belong to me. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/zduzsf1ymodocsnp/wish/1232166308 I yearn for my flesh to be interconnected to me. To belong to me. May my authentic inside be reflected outside. DAR

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