“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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Marshall and I watched a Veggie Tales DVD the other day from twenty years ago. It was just as surprisingly violent as the current ones, or the Bible itself. But, I found Mother God there. In this one, Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego are played by Larry the Cucumber, Tom the Tomato, and Lil’ Asparagus. They
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Today, Joel, Marshall and Sam came downstairs as I was beginning to read Ann Lamott’s Small Victories. Marshall said, “I think God is finally having influence in our lives.” Then Marshall hugged Sam and said, “I really, really love you, Sam!” Marshall then said to me, “I just love his babyness, how cute he is
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The past 4 days, I have opened up my clenched hands, up to the sky, to receive from Mother God. Our family needs a drenching of Her rain. My soul is opening up for us all, opening in trust and expectation of good gifts, particularly for Marshall. Day 1, Marshall said, “The real Marshall loves goodness.
This morning I was thinking about a professor I had at Regent College, Bob Ekblad. He taught a class I took called “Reading the Bible with the Damned” (now a book). Bob studies the Bible with inmates at a jail where he lives in Burlington, Washington. He works to show these men that Jesus delights
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When Marshall was 6 years old, we were in a park on one of those many one-off play dates. He hadn’t been diagnosed yet with Asperger’s/ASD, but social things were just not working. I was standing there, talking to this mother from preschool while Marshall played on his own. A curly-headed little girl, about four
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“Just as God is truly our Father; just so is God also truly our Mother. A mother’s service is nearest, readiest and surest. This office no one person has the ability or knows how to or ever will do fully but God alone.” Julian of Norwich, Swallow’s Nest, p. 227 I am beginning to experience
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Every year, my husband hopes to win the Research Award at his university. He deserves it. But every year, he is passed by. This year, he asked others not to nominate him so he wouldn’t get caught up in it all again, so he could keep his focus on what really is important. I feel
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Marshall said yesterday, when the computer wasn’t working, “Where is God when you need Him?” My response was ‘You just have to ask Her. She won’t just interfere.” I didn’t think about those feminine pronouns; they just rolled out like gum balls. I also experienced Mother God more as BFF than unrelenting truth-teller the other
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Imagine: a two-year old child walking down the steps of her house with a small backpack on her back. The gate is open. She walks out and down the street, as cars whiz by. “Me do it,” she says, as she keeps walking. She goes down the street, to the corner, and steps off the
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