The Audacity To Be This Comfortable

September 27, 2026
Weekly Topic Title: The Audacity To Be This Comfortable

Affirmation: I embrace radical comfort and peace in my body.

Reading:

When you feel small, unworthy, or overwhelmed by the pain of the world, it can be tempting to escape into distant beauty—mountains, sunsets, poems, or architecture. Focusing there can feel safer than turning toward your own story. But when beauty becomes an escape, it turns into illusion. You aren’t moving toward what you seek; you’re running from yourself. This isn’t the path of wonder.

True wonder asks you to stay present with yourself—to feel your body, your story, and your experience so fully that your deep connection to all of life comes into view. In sacred awe, you remember that you are not outside the story; you belong within it.

Wonder can be a powerful antidote to despair. It gently pushes back harmful lies about who you are and what you’re worth. Like hope, it strengthens your capacity to believe in goodness and beauty, even when circumstances suggest otherwise. Practicing wonder helps you stay rooted in truth, dignity, and belonging, reminding you that beauty and meaning are still alive—within you and all around you.

Adapted from— Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, pp. 36–37

Spiritual Point of View:

You are invited to remember that you live in, through, and as the Divine—while also knowing that the Divine is far more than you can ever fully grasp. You can never exhaust the Divine Nature, yet you are inseparable from It. This truth isn’t meant to diminish you; it’s meant to fill you with wonder at the majesty of your own being and the vastness of Life expressing through you.
Radically embodying spiritual principles asks more than understanding ideas—it asks you to experience awe, in and through you, right now.
You were born into radical self-love. Your body is not an obstacle to spirituality but one of its most sacred sites. When systems try to tell you otherwise—through racism, sexism, ableism, or body shame—you are invited to see those messages as lies, not truth. Reclaiming love and reverence for your body is a spiritual act of liberation, grounding you more fully in the Divine Life you already are.