Therefore, we ought not underestimate the weight of God’s glory that is fixed in our bodies and voices. For just as Jesus’ embodied self was the means through which he worked to love and intervene in the world, so too are our embodied selves endowed with a gravitas that can help make God’s love present in the world. To take seriously the call to incarnational presence then means taking our bodies to the hard and broken places and “developing the patience and discipline necessarily to stay long enough to see the needs.”9
