How God Changed the Way I Think About My Body

In the first chapter of Genesis, God looks upon all He has made and sees it is good. A week after giving birth I looked at my own body and struggled to agree with God’s assessment of creation.I didn’t have a strong theology around my body and its significance to my faith; for most of my life, I’ve treated thought and feeling as the means by which God makes himself known. My postpartum state forced me to reckon with my beliefs around the purpose of my physical form, and around the Bible’s pronoun