Do we have to make God the Mother a love muffin and God the Father the Big Boss? Does God the Father get to be Omni-Everything and God the Mother simply present? If we 1) become aware of our own unconscious, societally-based sexism; 2) correspondingly adjust our view of mothers; and 3) see how power […]
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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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As I try to understand the gospels, I like to think about what rabbis normally said and how they said it. I imagine that listening to one was a bit like hanging out on the streets of New York City, overhearing conversations spoken with vehemence. Rabbis were hyperbolic and maybe a bit brash to make
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For from those divine breasts where it seems God is always sustaining the soul, there flow streams of milk bringing comfort to all the people. –Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, p. 179-180 Recently, a fed-up dad posted a video on Facebook of him trying to eat and drink at a restaurant while wearing a
“I am among you as one who serves,” said Jesus in Luke 22:27. In seminary, as a single woman, I chose this as my missional verse. It was ironic and a bit too optimistic because I was never a particularly good servant. Until I became a mother. The verse perfectly sums up many experiences of
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Little children, tiny ones, usually know their parents delight in them. But as they get older, and harder to understand, and not as cute, our children are not always sure we love them as much. That’s how my 9-year-old, Marshall, feels. And that’s how I feel: not so sure we’re cute to Mother God anymore.
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Last night, Sam slept on his own on his back. Due to an infant breathing disorder, he’s slept and breathed well only on top of one of us, since he was born. He only woke up kicking and arching his back twice. But I am so used to sleeping sitting up, and sleeping lightly, that
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