Your BODY is not your ENEMY. Your body is a GIFT from God and a TOOL for your salvation.

God does not create anyone for damnation - this idol which chooses whom to save and whom to torment based on a 'divine' whim is a monster created by monstrous minds, not the God of Love Who reveals Himself in the Good News of the Gospels and Who has been worshipped by each generation of Saints, starting from the Apostles to our times.

Every single human being has the chance of salvation open before him / her until the very last breathe. There is no sign, no visible tell-tale to indicate that one is lost until God's Word has spoken from His Judgement Seat. Until then, everything we are, every aspect of our humanity - good or bad, positive or negative - can be redeemed and turned into a tool for salvation.

Our bodies do not diminish who we are; the fact that we are bodily beings does not diminish our faith. Our bodies are not our enemies. Even when they fail us, physically or spiritually, our bodies are not our enemies, but our God-given tools with which to work for our salvation.

Fr Seraphim, from the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, talks about the need to include our bodies in the story of our salvation. A human being is made of Body and Soul, and that means that any act of a human being - worship, prayer etc - needs to come from the entirety of that being: soul AND body.

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