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A few shots from Galway - note our proximity to the musicians at The Crane Pub, and Tim’s delight over a fresh oyster.
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Time for some posts from Dublin - drinking with a bunch of Americans at this iconic Irish bar to celebrate my 26th+++ birthday!
Day 48: This morning my walking partner and I met a woman from Jamaica who told us she is in our community with a charge to pray for all herein. She offered to pray with us and we accepted readily; the three of us held hands and she went at it with energetic faith and grace. Because of frustrated comments I’ve made in the past, my friend was quick to say to me afterwards, “I was hearing all her father language.” I heard it too, but was mostly translating to an ungendered term each time. I have decidedly mixed feelings about raising others’ consciousness about what is *not* being said when God is always a father because I don’t want to diminish anyone else’s connection to the holy. It’s just that, to me, the human need for parenting *is* so ungendered, and it’s only our culture’s language that implies otherwise. Mothering is a guiding value for Jesus as much as fathering is. The Christ – God among us - was quite literally neither, and both. - #the100daysproject #100namesforGod #contemplativecrafting #createdtocreatecohort #mandalaart #mandalamusings
Day 47: YES - After a long stretch of days without posts, this promise of God’s love and affirmation - indeed, God’s very nature - bursts forth! At this weekend’s joyous and joyful Atlanta Pride Festival, the delightful greeting repeatedly shared and endlessly proclaimed is, HAPPY PRIDE!” How divine, quite literally, to imagine God’s own fist bump to God’s own self for all of God’s people created in God’s own perfect image. Yes! - #the100daysproject #100namesforGod #contemplativecrafting #createdtocreatecohort #mandalaart #mandalamusings
Day 46: the image of God as a stronghold became a favorite for me when I took a class called Metaphor in the Psalms a couple of years ago at Columbia Theological Seminary - It inspired an art piece that still hangs on my wall. Stronghold is a synonym for castle or fort, but for me it also evokes a centering place of courage and truth – God all the way down! - #the100daysproject #100namesforGod #contemplativecrafting #createdtocreatecohort #mandalaart #mandalamusings

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