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[Catherine Walther]

This is so beautiful! Thank you Dean and Annabell. Christmas Blessings
Everyone, ❤️Catherine

 “We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to
recover is our original unity. *What we have to be is what we are.”*
Thomas Merton


On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:58 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Greetings one and all.
>
> I found this thought provoking *(some might say disturbing)* reflection by
> Kaitlin Hardy Shetler… posted by a friend on Facebook this afternoon, and
> I thought I would share it with you all…
>
> Blessings…
>
> Dean.
>
> *(Thanks to Annabel Quinn for sharing this reflection on Facebook!)*
>
> disturbance
> /dɪˈstəːb(ə)ns/
>
> <https://www.google.com/search?client=mobilesearchapp&sca_esv=971bf7ca036ed23b&bih=548&biw=320&channel=iss&cs=1&hl=en&rlz=1MDAPLA_enDO963DO967&source=mobilesearchapp&v=295.0.590048842&q=how+to+pronounce+disturbance&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMIfcRoyy3w8sc9YSmTSWtOXmPU4-INKMrPK81LzkwsyczPExLnYglJLcoV4pfi5eJOySwuKS1KSsxLTrViUWJKzeNZxCqTkV-uUJKvUADUlg_Ul6qApAoAREQzSmEAAAA&pron_lang=en&pron_country=gb&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiU7_7W556DAxWFSjABHXCfDX8Q3eEDegQIFhAs>
>
> <https://www.google.com/search?client=mobilesearchapp&sca_esv=971bf7ca036ed23b&bih=548&biw=320&channel=iss&cs=1&hl=en&rlz=1MDAPLA_enDO963DO967&source=mobilesearchapp&v=295.0.590048842&q=how+to+pronounce+disturbance&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMIfcRoyy3w8sc9YSmTSWtOXmPU4-INKMrPK81LzkwsyczPExLnYglJLcoV4pfi5eJOySwuKS1KSsxLTrViUWJKzeNZxCqTkV-uUJKvUADUlg_Ul6qApAoAREQzSmEAAAA&pron_lang=en&pron_country=gb&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiU7_7W556DAxWFSjABHXCfDX8Q3eEDegQIFhAs>
> *noun*
>
>    1. the interruption of a settled and peaceful condition.
>
>
> -::-::-::-
>
> Sometimes I wonder
> if Mary breastfed Jesus.
> if she cried out when he bit her
> or if she sobbed when he would not latch.
>
> and sometimes I wonder
> if this is all too vulgar
> to ask in a church
> full of men
> without milk stains on their shirts
> or coconut oil on their breasts
> preaching from pulpits off limits to the Mother of God.
>
> but then I think of feeding Jesus,
> birthing Jesus,
> the expulsion of blood
> and smell of sweat,
> the salt of a mother’s tears
> onto the soft head of the Salt of the Earth,
> feeling lonely
> and tired
> hungry
> annoyed
> overwhelmed
> loving
>
> and I think,
> if the vulgarity of birth is not
> honestly preached
> by men who carry power but not burden,
> who carry privilege but not labor,
> who carry authority but not submission,
> then it should not be preached at all.
>
> because the real scandal of the Birth of God
> lies in the cracked nipples of a
> 14 year old
> and not in the sermons of ministers
> who say women
> are too delicate
> to lead.
>
> -Kaitlin Hardy Shetler
>
> Artwork by Harmonia Rosales
>
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