Good morning…
“Good morning, Sue!” her text greeted me first thing yesterday.
“AHHHH!!! I can’t stop thinking about the ZESTY women and the ZESTY honest sharing yesterday – I feel one thousand percent closer to God in that transparent space than certain times in the past when I had all the perfect answers and impression of total certainty! Thank you for inviting us into the sweetness of the authentic in every aspect of our lives – not just in a Sunday circle – this EXPANSIVE LOVE knows no limits! SOOO grateful for you and here is that poem I mentioned by Emory Hall – maybe you’ve seen it before. But seeing how God’s unconditional and abiding love has been present for all of the iterations of my life gives me so much HOPE for the future.”
Make peace
with all the women
you once were.
Lay flowers
at their feet.
Offer them incense
and honey
and forgiveness.
Honor them
and give them your silence.
Listen.
Bless them
and let them be.
For they are the bones
of the temple
you sit in now.
For they are
the rivers
of wisdom
leading you toward
the sea.
Now all of us, with our faces unveiled, reflect the glory of the Lord as if we are mirrors; and so we are being transformed, metamorphosed, into His same image from one radiance of glory to another, just as the Spirit of the Lord accomplishes it (2 Corinthians 3:18, VOICE).
Might all the women we once were be honored and unveiled in the presence of God? Each passing part of us reflects the glory of the Lord, as we are being transformed by the Spirit from one form of radiance to the next. The Lord’s EXPANSIVE LOVE knows no limits! All of our ZESTY parts become rivers of wisdom leading us toward God’s everlasting sea.
…Sue…
