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Motherhood Birthing wholeness from our wombs Into a cradle of opposites Discovering that despite giving everything we have, we don’t have everything that’s needed Admitting an unmet need is a tragedy And also an opportunity to grow Forgiving ourselves for inflicting pain in our children And trusting them to have the strength to overcome Loving the mother you had Loving the mother you didn’t have Learning to mother yourself Learning to be mothered Mothering your own Mothering others Being a mother to all children- small and grown Being a child again We are all children We are all mothers We are all doing our best Happy Mother’s Day #returningtoeden #happymothersday #mothersday #motherhood
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THE SECRET HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT IS THIS... GOD IS NOT SO HOLY THAT HE CAN’T BE WITH SINNERS. THE TRUTH IS HE IS AT HOME WITH SINNERS. AND OUR GREATEST SIN IS THAT WE DON’T WANT TO BE SINNERS!
The behaviors we often call “sin” are actually the symptoms of our sin. Sin means “to miss the mark”. The separation from God inside of us and our True Selves. The symptoms of that separation are behaviors. In other words, the sin is the reason for the behaviors. Not the behaviors themselves. Early Orthodox Christian Art depicts Christ’s resurrection as a universal, communal event. Above are paintings of the Anastasis. A depiction can be found in All Orthodox Churches. It flies in the face of the West’s view of what it means to be “saved”. We often forget that after his death, Jesus “descended into hell” and the early art depicts Jesus standing on open gates and pulling people OUT of hell. NOT saving them from entering.  In other words, the meaning of his death is not a transaction—Not a payment of debt to satisfy God so that we wouldn’t have to spend an eternity burning in flames. It’s a REALIZATION that we are in hell until we realize that the gate is open and we are free to walk out. He saves us from the prison we are already in. Every body is a Temple of God (meaning a place where God resides). As Caryll Houselander says, “…reverence must be paid even to those sinners whose souls seem to be dead, because it is Christ, who is the life of the soul, who is dead in them; they are His tombs, and Christ in the tomb is potentially the risen Christ." The cry, Tetelestai, "it is finished," was not the gasp of a worn-out life, but the deliberate utterance of a clear consciousness that His work was finished, and all God's purpose accomplished (Acts 17:4), that all had now been done that could be done to make God known to men, and to identify Him with men. (-M. Dods). Christ is not Jesus’s last name. It is a title given to him to say that God had finally REVEALED himself in his fullness through Jesus. Indeed, God has been revealing himself since the beginning of time. The gift is the realization. The seeing. #returningtoeden #goodfriday #holysaturday #easter #christianity #jesus #imagodei
Western Christianity has only embraced half the gospel (if that). Jesus’s death beckons us first to the foot of the cross—only so that then we can look out with His eyes FROM THE CROSS ITSELF. You can’t see with Christ’s eyes from the ground. Did you know that one of the earliest theories about Jesus’s Death was the Ransom Theory of Atonement? It stated that Jesus died in order to pay a ransom to Satan. This persisted for the first 1000 years of Christianity. It later evolved to say the sacrifice was to satisfy God instead (which is what the Evangelical church puts forth today). I’ve come to believe neither. Jesus is the blueprint. The archetype for the renewal of humanity. Early Christians were simply followers of “The Way”. Following in the example of Jesus. I don’t believe they would recognize our “gospel” today. #Christianity #returningtoeden #goodfriday #easter
As we approach #GoodFriday think about this. It’s a very important distinction. Jesus came to change your mind about God. Not to change God’s mind about you. It didn’t need changing. He’s a REVELATION. Not a TRANSACTION. #returningtoeden
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Month: February 2019

Posted on:February 23, 2019February 25, 2019Christianity faith Spirituality

The morning God sent a transgender angel to save me

I’m fully aware that this is a click-bait title. However, it is also true. I also wish that I could give you all the details of what I mean by this, but I’m choosing to only paint in broad strokes for the privacy of the person who changed me. I realize that this decision to […]

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Posted on:February 22, 2019February 22, 2019faith Psychology Spirituality

My Journey to the Garden

A free verse poem Maybe the hell I’ve always feared Was burning inside of me? And the only way to heaven was to walk right through the fire Falling forward I ignite My mind and body engulfed in heat I’ve made a mistake Let me drift back to sleep Give me the inferno I thought […]

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