Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Today, in Mercy, we have, from Isaiah, one of most beloved and comforting passages in Scripture:
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
Not to forget is to remember. And to “re-member” is to put back together all the pieces that have fallen apart.
Because God “remembers” us at every moment in our lives, we are held together in that Divine Memory through all the exigencies of time. We are held together in the wholeness of our Creation, in the fullness of grace that God imagines for us. Even when we cannot feel or believe it, God continues to dream us into Eternal Life.
Whenever we feel in our hearts a lament like Zion’s
“The Lord has forsaken me…”
let us place ourselves in the heart of our Mother God Who cradles us with infinite, unconditional affection and tenderness, Who is alway re-membering us.
Music: God Our Mother – The Litugists
This song, though short, is a good one to repeat as a mantra as we pray. Lyrics below
God our Father
Giver of daily bread
Blessing our hands and covering our heads
God our Mother
Leading us into peace
Drawing and comforting all those in need
Hallowed, hallowed be thy name
Hallowed, hallowed be thy name
Hallowed, hallowed be thy name in all the earth
Jesus, brother, guiding our very step
Deliver us and grant places of rest
Jesus, savior, grabbing us from the grave
Cheating the fall and bringing the light of day
Lavish Mercy 