Because of your protection, I sing. I stay close to you; your right hand supports me.
All tagged God our mother
Because of your protection, I sing. I stay close to you; your right hand supports me.
Gathering one another for nurture, for centering, and allowing oneself to be gathered, for focus, admonition, and empowerment: this is the maternal work of God.
Our lives are not just sustained, they are infused with God’s love that overflows from need to sheer luxuriance.
Beginning with Eve, you began a tradition of passing down motherhood for generations to come.
When Mother’s Day comes along, I start squirming, and I really just want to move on to Monday when no one is launching Proverbs 31 grenades at me.
Yes, the Bible uses the image or metaphor of “Father” to refer to God, but it is only an image; one way of communicating what God is like (a God that is neither male nor female).
There is something unique about female humanity that puts them in solidarity with Christ. The blood of women has life-giving power, so too the blood that poured from Jesus’s side bore new creation.