We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Romans 8:22 (NIV)
Advent 2011
Ancestral midwives kneel in shadows
bringing aid and comfort
witness giving
to the pains and crying out and pushing,
Sister-mothers,
prepare the way,
For birthing
in a gushing
mess with cries of gratitude and joy,
As water holy turned
to blood in breaking open paths and sacks
that spill out life
and milk and bread
from deepest springs of hope ferocious. Continue reading “Advent 2011 By Barbara Marian”

