What is Body Positivity?

Today’s Reflection

The term “body positivity” may be new to you. At its root, body positivity is a social movement that makes this claim: All bodies are good bodies. . . . Body positivity, in this book, is an act of radical self-love.

—Anne Cumings, My Body Is Good: Giving Up Diet Culture and Embracing Body Positivity for Lent (Upper Room Books, 2022)

Today’s Question

Why do you think the second greatest commandment tells us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves? Join the conversation.

Today’s Scripture

[Jesus] responded, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”—Luke 10:27 (CEB)

Prayer for the Week

God of new beginnings, help me toacknowledge, perhaps for the first time,the beliefs about my body that I haveheld for so long. Guide me in sortingwhich beliefs are helpful and which areharmful. Lead me back to you andto this body that you called good. Amen