We think of Judas as the black sheep of the family during Holy Week. He made an unforgiveable mistake, right? So big that even Jesus pronounced “woe” to His betrayer (Matt. 26:24). A closer look at Matthew 26 shows us that Jesus had Judas covered. In fact, Matthew shows that all The Twelve failed Jesus …
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God and Happiness: Not an Oxymoron The best part of learning to call God “Mother” has been that I now believe God wants me to be happy. Somehow I got that wrong a long time ago, believing God the Father always had some personal agenda (His glory, the salvation of every one around me, and …
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Is Mother God a Goddess? I used to procrastinate thinking through the issue of calling God Mother, just like I put off making a final decision about the nature of homosexuality. I had intellectual questions about both topics, sure, but my hesitation originated in my emotions. I feared being in the wrong. Heretical. Outside of the good people circle who …
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Recently, I got a chance to see how the Mother God Experiment is working, when I wasn’t able to spend time in Swallow’s Nest or the Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament for a week. I found myself reverting to “Lord,” here, “God” there, and lots of “Jesus” with not any Mother Gods coming out of my mouth, …
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I called on three Athena-like prayer warriors via email, after Marshall’s PTSD symptoms re-emerged with bunny Acorn’s death. Soon after, Marshall was peaceful again, happy with being mayor of Animal Crossing on his Nintendo. Yesterday, he went to hippotherapy and music therapy. He learned to groom a horse and got a piano lesson. The therapies …
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In the middle of the night, our rabbit, Acorn, who lives in the backyard, was mauled by a raccoon or two. We knew they’d been coming in sometimes. But normally they ate cat food, washed their hands in the cat water, and left. (Raccoons have hands more than paws in my estimation). But last night there …
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“A mother can give her child milk to suck, but our dear mother Jesus can feed us with himself, and he does so most courteously and most tenderly with the holy sacrament, which is the precious food of life itself… The mother can lay the child tenderly to her breast, but our tender mother Jesus, …
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The first song I heard by Raffi, the Canadian children’s folksinger, was “Biscuits in the Oven.” Tears gathered in my eyes as I danced with 1-year-old Marshall. I sensed this man was responding deeply to a calling to love, that can only come from God. The words were simple, but his voice and music fed …
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Trusting Mother God more is helping me to take risks. I spent time on the Facebook group, Portland Autism Moms, today. One thread was about flying with kids with ASD. Marshall is scared to fly. Anxiety precedes agitation for him and a lot of his peers. The anxiety could unfold into all kinds of melt-down scenarios …
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Marshall has been in the thick of unbelief again. He said on Sunday, “I believe Jesus did miracles, but not that he rose from the dead.” He thinks Jesus was a lucky fluke of evolution. I’ve noticed Marshall’s faith in God’s existence fluctuates with whether I’m reading something inspiring to him daily. We found some …
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