Session Audio
The Words Make Flesh:
Why Body Stewardship Still Matters to the Writer
Presented at the 2026 C.S. Lewis Writer's Conference in Colorado Springs, CO
Session Synopsis:
It can easily feel like our bodies are nothing more than an inconvenient necessity - its only job is to carry our head to the writer's desk where we must then use these strange five fingered appendages to transmit our thoughts to paper. Wouldn't writing be so much simpler if we didn't have to bother with these pesky bodies? But Scripture declares that our bodies are not an afterthought to the Author of our souls. Just like we can write stories on paper, so stories are written in our bodies every day, and these words, in a very real sense, 'make flesh'. Just as mankind was made by the spoken word of God, and He called it "very good" so the way we care for our bodies speaks volumes to our spirits about how "good" we think we are. And just as Jesus Christ is The Word made flesh, so God Himself reveals to us through the incarnation that the mortal human body has everlasting significance. Adam R. Nettesheim is a columnist for Cultivating Oaks Press and is also in recovery from an eating disorder - two things that intersect and depend upon stewardship. In this session Adam will remind attendees of how miraculous the gift of existence is, and why, even for the writer, the story we write on the pages of our body matters very much indeed.
Here is a link to a downloadable PDF for the workbook The Words Make Flesh. A Body Stewardship Workbook for the Writer. Please feel free to use whatever is beneficial to you and lay aside the rest.
To connect with Adam:
contact@adamrnettesheim.com
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