Marina Abramović e Ulay - The Feminine Presence Takes In All, Including Suffering

Tears of gratitude caught several times in my throat this afternoon during Daughters of Abraham.   As a child I was raised in a misogynist Christian denomination.  My Muslim friend explained that one of God's attributes in the Qur'an, the Arabic word "rachman"  or "merciful" comes from the root word "womb." A very feminine God, then, becomes an all-sustaining womb of creation. 

Our Jewish friend quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures, the Song of Moses, that "God suckles."  (Deuteronomy 32:13)  He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock;"

In Christianity the Divine Feminine is so hidden that when I mentioned at my son's wedding my disappointment over not hearing any Divine Feminine language, only "God the Father/He did this, God our Lord/He said that," their pastor responded, "The Divine Feminine?  What's that?"

In Christianity there still lives resistance to Mother God.  Recently when a Congregational pastor read Luke 13:34 where Jesus compares himself to a Mother hen, "How often I have longed to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen [gathers] her young under her wings" the male pastor referred to that female hen as "he."

American inventor and futurist, Buckminster Fuller said, "We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think."  Are we free thinkers within our faith?

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