god as mother

In the Hebrew Bible, God’s love is maternal.

It’s not possible to parent without experiencing risk, weakness, pain, and transformation.

I see love incarnate in suffering flesh, a body bearing a body in pain for love.

Parker Palmer writes of the divided life: having sensed that what’s within us is somehow unacceptable, we live contrary to it. In so doing we snuff our own inner light and suffocate our soul.

American life seems divided about Mother’s Day.