The Image Cannot Be Extinguished

Consent

SCRIPTURE Revelation 3:20 (NIV)  "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me." REFRAIN God waits for my yes. QUOTE Denise Levertov, from Annunciation "The engendering Spirit did not enter her without consent. God waited. She was free to accept or to refuse, choice is integral to humanness. She did not cry, 'I cannot. I am not worthy,' Nor, 'I have not the strength.' She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, coerced. Bravest of all humans, consent illuminated her. The room filled with its light, the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings. Consent, courage unparalleled, opened her utterly." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Working Underground

SCRIPTURE John 19:25 (NIV) Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. REFRAIN I find power in presence and in stillness. QUOTE Edwina Gateley, from Soul Sisters "Be silent. Be still. Alone. Empty before your God. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still. Let your God look upon you. That is all. God knows. God understands. God loves you with an enormous love, and only wants to look upon you with that love. Quiet. Be still. Be silent. Let your God love you." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Great Yes

SCRIPTURE Luke 1:38 (NRSVUE) Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her. REFRAIN I open myself to what God wants to bring to birth in me. QUOTE Meister Eckhart "We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Feminine Incarnation

SCRIPTURE Romans 1:20 (NIV) For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. REFRAIN God is more than any image I have been given. QUOTE Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character — as the Bible itself often does." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

A Full Body Tune Up

SCRIPTURE Isaiah 45:15 (NIV) Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel. REFRAIN God is at the depth of all things, including me. QUOTE Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "I doubt if you can see the image of God in your fellow humans if you cannot first see it in rudimentary forms in stones, in plants and flowers, in strange little animals, in bread and wine, and most especially cannot honor this objective divine image in yourself. It is a full-body tune-up, this spiritual journey. It really ends up being all or nothing, here and then everywhere." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.