Mama Monday #32

Some quotes for you about Epiphany are below that I found to be so good. May they bring you some encouragement this week…⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

The season of Epiphany extends from January 6 until Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. 

Robert Benson wrote this:   "Now the season of looking for Him everywhere is upon us — the season of Epiphany is what they call it.  Heads up. Keep your eyes and ears and hands open. He is everywhere, and He moves in pretty surprising ways. You do not want to miss Him." 

 

Be like the magi, those ancient wise men.

Do not obey in advance. Discern deceit; trust the truth.

Be brave. Following a star means moving at night. Sometimes the night will be very dark indeed.

Keep on the journey; trust the way. The star will stop. We can kneel, worship, choose joy. Even when Herod enacts his evil schemes, God is with us. Love is here, born into the world.

Offer your gifts. Travel light. Give thanks. Pay attention to your dreams.

And, whatever you do, take another road home. -Diana Butler Bass

 

May the blessings of Epiphany be yours:
The blessing of moving beyond safety into unknown territories.
The blessing of trusting God amid imperfection, and maybe even a little danger.
The blessing of stumbling across a God who chooses to be revealed in vulnerability.
The blessing of ongoing revelation rather than a static faith.
The blessing of being an ordinary mystic,
open to the mystery of God-in-Christ revealed in your ordinary life.-Ruth Haley Barton

 

Whatever is happening in your life this week, I pray that you would have that sense of His star, of something ahead of you to move towards, even though you don’t fully understand what it is or how to find it. I pray that you would have courage and joy to set out for it. I pray that you could have capacity for the adventure of what you don’t know, for the risk of what it might cost you, and that you would always remember that this is a deep longing for all that will satisfy you—a joy of finding more of God. Amen.

-Benediction from Low in the Water podcast, Matthew 2:1-12


and my reflections from our Lectio reading of this passage for Epiphany below from last week: 












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