Mothering God

I wrote this prayer/poem for Mother's Day sunday. This is a difficult day for many women who for a variety of reasons are not mothers. So I decide to write about an image of God that is mothering. I wrote the following.

I paired this with this version of the Lord's prayer translated from the Aramaic.

Mothering God
Source of all living things
It was you who breathed life into us.

In your likeness we were formed.
In the darkness of your sacred womb  

Your creative energy pulsates through us
You birth life within us.

You carry us close to your heart
and sing your lullaby of comfort to us

You cradle us in your arms

Gather us under your wings like a hen

You bathe us in life-giving waters
with the milk of compassion, you nurture us.

 

You call us to together to be

Your love song of joy

Amen.

 

 

O Birther!  Father-Mother of the Cosmos,
Focus your light within us - make it useful:
Create your reign of unity now.
Your one desire then acts with ours,
as in all light, so in all forms.

Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold of others' guilt.
Don't let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back.

From you is born all ruling will,
the power and the life to do,
the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.

Truly - power to these statements -
may they be the ground from which all
my actions grow. Amen.

 (NDouglas-Klotz/pc)