God, Our Mother
Podcast – Pasadena Mennonite Church
English - May 13, 2020 23:05 - 37.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality mennonite anabaptist peace justice community jesus christ pasadena los angeles Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On Mother's Day, Tim Reardon spoke about God, Our Mother — a metaphor that helps us to image an aspect of God. Language is powerful, and can provide a lens to envision God more fully. And there is a history in the church of images of God as mother.
We read from Hosea 11:1-4, where God as parent calls Israel son, teaches Ephraim to walk, takes Israel into his arms, leads with human kindness and love, lifts them as one would an infant to the cheek, and bends to feed them.
From there we read from John, where Jesus refers to the sorrow of his death as like the woman giving birth to a child, where pain becomes joy.
Who is this woman whose hour has come?
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