Mama Mondays

I came across this article this past week by John Lewis called "Walking with the Wind," and I found it to be such a powerful story considering the communities that have grounded us  when the storms have come. I figured this would resonate with your friends in the Justice Salon at St. A's as well. 

  a gorgeous poem I came across this week for a paper I am writing for a class I'm taking...   Soliloquies - Joy, ©Makoto Fujimura 2009 Currently on exhibit at Alien Museum in Taiwan   God is the (only) Artist To say— God is the only Artist— is to name a reality too vast for us to behold, yet too intimate to ignore as it is right in front of us. He alone calls forth creation from the void. God’s first act of beauty— a Word. A Word that flares into galaxies, into oceans, into breath As a dance. We are born into God’s imagination. This refractive cosmos. Whatever we call our art is already participation in what has been given Through the Spirit's call. Our pigments are gifts of earth. Our clay is shaped by unseen histories. We never begin with nothing. Only God does. And yet— this Artist of eternity does not finish the canvas without us. God paints with patience. God paints with humility. The New is withh...

  Lord Jesus, Living Christ; You are the doctor who gathers up the wounded, You are husband, father, and brother. You are the Good Shepherd. You are the friend of women and children and the refuge of fools and sinners. You are the servant of servants. You are the first and last. You are the master to whom all things are possible and in whom there is no longer anything to fear. You are a little child, yet also the eternal Word in whom all things dwell. You are Mary’s mystery and Joseph’s dream. You are my all in all. You are the balm of broken hearts and the master of the house. You are the speaker and the listener. You are midwife to all souls and tender mother to all broken hearts. You are the one with the Father and you are King David’s heir. Your love is beyond measurement and your being is divine. You are the suffering one who understands our human loneliness, brokenness, and betrayals. You are the weeping one who agonizes in prayer, alone. You are one and you are ...

  Here is a passage from Thursday’s lectionary and a reflection to share… XOXO….   2 Corinthians 1:1-11-- New International Version 1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia: 2  Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise to the God of All Comfort 3  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,  4  who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  5  For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.  6  If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient ...