God is good and everything God created is good. Take some time to relax your body and listen to your breath as if it is the breath of God slowly and gently moving through you from head to toe.

Who has spoken words over your body?
What words were used to bless?
What words were used to hurt?

The parable of the talents then would become a commentary at large about an economy that uses people and values things rather than values people and uses things.

As people of faith we are given frameworks and images of just such alternative ways of being with one another, socially, spiritually, and economically. The kingdom of God calls to us, beckons us, to reimagine our worth, our belonging, our bodies.