Anita Lustrea

Writer, producer and teacher, Daneen Akers, joins me on the podcast this week as we take a look at the feminine references and metaphors about God in Scripture that also influenced the writing of her recent children’s book, Dear Mama God. It’s a beautiful book with gorgeous illustrations that connects us, through the eyes of a child, with the feminine side of God, which doesn’t get enough place in our pulpits.

Lest you get nervous about this conversation, check out these scripture references that describe the feminine side of God as well as links to books mentioned on the podcast.

A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church by Wilda Gafney

When God Was a Little Girl by David R. Weiss

What Is God Like by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

Mother God by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky

Picturing God by Ruth Goring

Maybe God Is Like That Too by Jennifer Grant

Holy Trouble Makers by Daneen Akers

The Benediction I used from Numbers 6:24-26

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift Her countenance upon you and give you peace. Amen.

Female references to God and images of God in scripture 

Genesis 1:27 Women and Men created in God’s image

“Humankind was created as God’s reflection: in the divine image God created them; female and male, God made them.”

Hosea 11:3-4 God described as a mother

God: “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I who took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.”

Hosea 13:8 God described as a mother bear

“Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and tear them asunder…”

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 God described as a mother eagle

“Like the eagle that stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young, God spreads wings to catch you, and carries you on pinions.”

Deuteronomy 32:18 God who gives birth

“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.”

Isaiah 66:13 God as a comforting mother

God: “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother

God: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”

Isaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor

God: “For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.”

Psalm 131:2 God as a Mother

“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.”

Psalm 123:2-3 God compared to a woman

“As the eyes of a servant looks to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to you, YHWH, until you show us your mercy!”

Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God as a Mother Hen

Jesus: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”

Luke 15:8-10 God as woman looking for her lost coin

Jesus: “Or what woman having ten silver coins, is she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 4.28.23 

1. The outcome of the 2024 election will hinge on our answer to  one pivotal question. Do we still want a democracy or not? 

2. “My Pillow” founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year’s U.S. election.

He called the challenge “Prove Mike Wrong.”

On Wednesday, a private arbitration panel ruled that someone did.” ~WAPO

I have to admit that I found this to be a ‘feel good’ story. $5 million is a whole lot of pillows. Glad to see Lindell, who has deliberately and maliciously done so much damage, get called out. May it be the wake up call that leads to a change of his  attitude and heart.

3. If you never learned about the outcome of the Dominion suit against FOX News then you were probably watching FOX News. Let’s just say the breadth and depth of their coverage of their ‘problem with the truth’ was a little lacking. It’s no surprise. 

Conservative pundit George F. Will notes that the case  uncovered “an avalanche of evidence that Fox News thinks of its audience as being easily triggered, akin to campus snowflakes, into trauma. And that Fox News should be their ‘safe space’ where viewers will encounter nothing, such as news that might make them sad. The settlement prevented the network further embarrassment: Fox News could not have comfortably defended its on-air personnel as entertainers, not journalists, and innocent of defamation because they are anti-intellectual sociopaths.”

Was I sad that Tucker Carlson was pulled off the air? No, not at all. I was delighted. He’s a very vile and dangerous man, masquerading as a voice of reason, who quite obviously needs some history lessons, an ethics course, a good therapist and a spiritual director. I pray he seeks the help he needs. 

I can’t help but wonder, though, what FOX is up to now and who’s first in line to woo Carlson onto their team?

4. I’m slowly making my way through a Brennan Manning book I didn’t even know existed. It’s called A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self Hatred. It has already touched me profoundly. Manning writes:

“Praying over the passage of the washing of the feet, I was suddenly transported in faith into the Upper Room, where I took Judas’s place among the Twelve. 

Jesus, with a towel around his waist, poured water from a pitcher into a copper basin and reached out to wash my feet. Involuntarily I pulled my foot back. I couldn’t look at him. I had betrayed the vision, been unfaithful to my dream (and thus unfaithful to his plan for my life). 

Sensing my dismay, he placed his hand on my knee and said, “Brennan, do you know what these years together have meant to me? You were being held even when you didn’t believe I was holding you. I love you, my friend.” Tears rolled down my cheeks. “But Lord, my sins, my repeated failures, my weaknesses…” “I understand. Brennan, I expected more failure from you than you expected from yourself.” He smiled. “And you always came back. Nothing pleases me as much as when you trust me, when you allow that my compassion is bigger than your sinfulness.” 

“But Jesus, what about my irritating character defects—the boasting, the inflating of the truth, the pretense of being an intellectual, the impatience with people, and all the times I drank to excess?” 

Jesus replied: “What you are saying is true. But your love for me has never wavered: your heart has remained pure. What’s more, even in the darkness and confusion, you’ve always done something that overshadowed all the rest. You were kind to sinners…Peace, my friend.” 

“My compassion is bigger than your sinfulness…. Nothing pleases me as much as when you trust me…”  

5. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.” ~ Blaise Paschal

The ‘christian nationalism’ movement in America asks its loyalists to joyfully believe in and do scandalous things all in the name of a god they’ve invented, which is actually a rather unflattering caricature of Jesus. In days past we’d call it idolatry.

6. “Jesus wept,  

    and in his weeping, 

    he joined himself forever 

    to those who mourn.

 He stands now throughout all time,  

  this Jesus weeping, 

  with his arms about the weeping ones …

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life,  

there is a deafening alleluia 

rising from the souls  

of those who weep, 

and of those who weep with those 

If you watch, you see the hand of God  

putting the stars back in their skies 

one by one.”  ~ Ann Weems

7. When Jesus is replaced by the Bible (and believe me, in certain quarters that is indeed the case) Christianity easily becomes legalistic and any thought of grace is only given lip service. 

 8. “The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” ~ Samuel Beckett

Here’s the good news. We get to be a part of this daily creation of our world. We’re creation makers. Put that on your resume.

So, even In the midst of all the evil and wickedness in our world, there  are still opportunities for us to be a light in the darkness and to link arms with others doing the same. Shine brightly, my friends, shine brightly.

9. “There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.” ~ Fredrick Nietzsche.

It boils down to what we do with the gift of choice. It almost always comes to that, doesn’t it?

10. There have been more  incidents of mass shootings in 2023 than there are days. 

Paranoia runs deep these days. Gun lobbies work overtime to scare people, reminding them that if you’re not armed, you won’t be able to stand your ground against ‘them’ who will be at your doorstep any day now. 

It’s a sad day in America when someone is shot and/or killed because  they lost their way, their basketball got away from them, made a u-turn,  accidentally tried to open the door of a car identical to their own, or showed up at the wrong address to pick up siblings. 

Gun ownership, as I grew up understanding it, is a grave and sober responsibility. I think, somewhere along the way, we’ve discarded that particular perspective. Too many are quite OK with allowing those who are neither sober nor responsible to arm themselves with weapons no citizen really needs. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

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On the podcast we take a look at the seasons of the soul. Melinda Schmidt is my guest and we talk through each season and the metaphors we might glean to talk about our own souls. The question that is posed at the beginning is “Which of the four season’s metaphors would describe your soul right now?” It’s an important question to pose to ourselves periodically if we desire to be on a journey of growth and transformation.

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Here are some of the books mentioned on the podcast:

The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister

Falling Upward by Richard Rohr

The Story of Ruth by Joan Chittister

Grow Through It by Dani DiPirro

The Book of Nature by Barbara Mahany

Dear Heart, Come Home by Joyce Rupp

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

On the Brink of Everything by Parker Palmer

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 4.21.23 

1. “If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.” ~ Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Facing truths frees us up. We don’t have to fake anything anymore. It also opens the door that leads to intimacy with God. And when we grow close to God it’s wise to heed the counsel of Desmond Tutu: “We are only the light bulbs and our job is just to remain screwed in!”

Screwed in not screwed up. 

2. “Guns aren’t the problem. People are the problem. 

Then why do you want the problem to have guns?” ~ Leah Stites

In the midst of this crucial national discussion, Republican candidates and wannabes, made their annual pilgrimage to offer themselves body, mind, soul, and heart to the god named NRA which just happens to have, surprisingly enough, a huge war chest filled with cash.

WAPO reported that  “Due to Secret Service security requirements, guns were not allowed in the room where candidates spoke…”

How ironic. 

WAPO also reported that “in the hall next door, amid more than 14 acres of guns, bullets, taxidermy and memorabilia, attendees sported red bags of convention swag. Particularly large crowds circled stands featuring AR-15 rifles, the weapon used in many mass killings.” 

I’m sure all the conventioneers were thinking, “This is great. I can do all my Christmas shopping for the grandkids right here, right now. Maybe I’ll by a t-shirt for each of the twins.  They’d love the one with Jesus holding an AR-15, saying “This is how the Prince of Peace rolls.” 

3. “People regularly say, if there really was a God, if he really wanted to sort the place out, then he would come and, bang, it would be done. He would send in the tanks — metaphorically speaking, or perhaps not — and sort out the evil and wickedness in the world. But the Sermon on the Mount says that when God comes to sort out the world the Jesus way, he doesn’t send in tanks. He sends in the poor and the brokenhearted and the hungry-for-justice people and the meek and the people who are ready to suffer for getting the world sorted out.” ~ NT Wright, PhD, New Testament Scholar, Oxford

That means power trips and ego driven power people aren’t what the upside down Kingdom of God uses to sort things out. 

Jesus sends the the poor, the broken hearted, the justice minded people, the meek and the ready to suffer to the power trippers. They are the ones who need the help reorienting their lives for they are grossly out of step with God’s intentions. 

Interesting isn’t it?

T.S. Elliott once wrote: “Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” 

4. The renowned Irish writer Samuel Beckett penned these words : “Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.” 

Silence speaks its own language. And sometimes it reveals to us the gentle and quiet whisper contained within it. Just ask Elijah the prophet and then read Psalm 46 which reminds us to “Be still and know I am God.” 

5. “The crowd marched together from the Lorraine Motel to the Shelby County Commissioners’ meeting, where spectators there cheered when Pearson arrived. The commissioners voted unanimously to reinstate Pearson until a special election can be held. The Republicans on the commission didn’t show up to vote.” Heather Cox Richardson 

They didn’t show up to vote. It’s their job to vote. How cowardly. How thinly veiled is their contempt for any iteration of democracy that challenges their own. 

6. “A mature Christian sees Christ in everything and everyone else. That is a definition that will never fail us, always demand more of us, and give us no reasons to fight, exclude, or reject anyone. ~ Richard Rohr 

“When you and I embrace Jesus’ essential paradox—that to lose is to gain and to die is to live—we come to God, who gathers up the broken pieces of the world and makes them more complete and beautiful than they were before they broke.” ~Rachel M. Srubas

May it not be said of us that when we first saw the cracks appearing in our world and in the lives of others we did nothing to repair them. 

May it not be said of us that we were OK with passing by, attentive to only our own agendas, satisfied with our own selfishness. 

May it not be said of us that we were not curious enough to wonder whether or not our indifference marginalized others.

May it not be said of us that we couldn’t be bothered to care about lives being broken in a world  breaking apart. 

May it not be said of us that we failed to see the world the way God does. 

May it not be said of us that we passed up opportunities to be healers. 

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. 

7. “I wanted to see Rupert Murdoch put his hand on the Bible and burst into flames!” ~ Stephen Colbert

¾ of a billion dollars for ¾ billion lies I’m reckoning. 

8. Florida is a state operating on a ‘winner take all’ philosophy. Extreme gerrymandering has resulted in win/lose governance. The result is that it has become not a particularly safe place for anyone who’s not an uber conservative, white, evangelical, or heterosexual. It is, however, becoming quite a safe haven for those valuing intolerance.

I hope reading this makes you sad and then righteously angry and then stirs you to do whatever you can to make sure this doesn’t happen where you live. 

In the meantime, there’s a whole lot of really good people in Florida who are fighting back, who are advocating for righteousness, and demanding change. Pray for them. They’re rolling a big boulder up a steep hill. 

9. “The work of prophets is to warn, to warn people of the inevitable consequences of their foolish or immoral actions. It will be the end of the world as you know it, the prophets say, unless you rethink your current assumptions, values, and priorities, unless you become ready to change your way of life. Usually, the people don’t listen.” ~ Brian McLaren

There are prophetic voices in our midst even today. Are you not hearing them? Selective listening tunes them out and we are the poorer for it. Flip the switch and decide to be a curious listener. Watch what happens. You just might hear the words of modern day prophets and be gifted with a sense of ‘holy discontent’. And you will be forever changed. 

10. Our job according to Dietrich Bonhoeffer is to “not simply  bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spike into the wheel itself.” 

There’s no doubt in my mind that he was right. Bandaging wounds is a very good thing but dealing with the system that’s doing the wounding just might be the better thing. No worries. We can do both at the same time. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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Christine Valters Paintner is a favorite author and guest of mine. This time we talk about her newly released book of poetry, Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty. The format of this new book takes the reader on a journey. We get to experience it on the podcast as well since Christine reads a number of poems and helps us spend time reflecting on the content.  These words from the back cover of the book are appropriate, “When it seems you walk alone, let these words help reveal love as the ground beneath you.” I’m sure you’ll enjoy this weeks conversation!

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings 4.14.24

1. “Just because you have power doesn’t mean you have permission to abuse power.” ~ Justin Pearson

Last Thursday, as votes were being cast in the Tennessee House for the expulsion of ‘The Tennessee Three’, I remember thinking that there was no way the MAGA GOP members would allow the white woman to stay and the Black men to be expelled. I thought that they couldn’t be that stupid and they’d come to the realization that the optics would be horrible.

Au contraire. 

I was wrong. 

They were that stupid. 

And the optics were indeed awful. 

When representative Gloria Johnson was asked why she survived being expelled (by one vote) while two of her colleagues (Justin Jones and Justin Pearson) were booted out of the Tennessee House she said: “Well, I’m a sixty year old white woman and they are two young Black men.”

Overt displays of racism should make us all cringe. What happened in the mad rush to get even with ‘The Tennessee Three’ was ugly stuff. America got another inside look at what happens when hate attempts to prevail over justice. All that was missing were the white robes and hoods.

Adding insult to injury, House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) went on an interview with a Knoxville radio station. He suggested that the brief nonviolent protest the three representatives participated in,  was an “insurrection equivalent to or worse than that at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.” 

Really? 

Seriously?

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ~ James Baldwin

Ignorance that was allied with power got smacked around this week didn’t it? It was just one battle in a long war but a message was sent to the Tennessee GOP and to the entire MAGA world. That message declared that  “Justice ain’t goin’ down easy.” 

2.  Ruth Haley Barton posted this prayer from “Every Moment Holy”. I find it helpful during this particular time and place in history. 

“O God our Rock,

hold us in this chaos. 

O Christ our King,

calm us in this storm.

O Holy Spirit,

Intercede for us.

Be merciful,

most merciful God! 

O God our Rock,

hold us in the chaos

of this hard hour.

O Christ our King,

calm us in the storm

of our distress.

O Holy Spirit,

Intervene

   and intercede

We need you now,

most merciful God!”

3. Until the Lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” ~ African Proverb.

A lot of what’s being banned these days has to do with hunters not allowing lions to tell their side of the story. I wonder what they’re afraid of?

4. The temptation these days is to just go with the flow. It’s actually a good strategy at times. Don’t sweat the small stuff, eh? 

But what about the bigger stuff, like the issues fueling our culture wars, the erosion of societal trust, the abandonment of agreed upon cultural norms and the violence at our doorstep?  Is laying back and just going with the flow the best way to address these problems?

I’m resonating with those who say “to hell with that idea.”

There’s just too much at stake.

Going with the flow at this particular time, with these big issues in play, would be cowardly. 

It would be sinful. 

Bonhoeffer says: “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Going with the flow means aiding and abetting those who want to do harm and who count on our indifference and lack of resolve.

Good people know that doing 

the next right thing, in the right way, 

is the narrower

but necessary 

way forward. 

5. “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” ~ Susan B. Anthony

Whenever I hear the words “God told me” I get more than a bit uneasy. Oftentimes, what God told them seems to contradict just about everything I know about God.

6. “We often look for the miracle that rescues us instead of the miracle that transforms us.” ~ Anita Lustrea

7. “Jesus’ primary metaphor for the mystery of transformation is the sign of Jonah … Jesus knew well the graphic story of Jonah the prophet who ran from God and was used by God almost in spite of himself. Jonah was swallowed by a whale and taken where he would rather not go. This was Jesus’ metaphor for death and rebirth…Rather than look for impressive apparitions or miracles, Jesus said we must go inside the whale’s belly for a while. Then and only then will we be spit out on a new shore and understand our call, our place, and our purpose…” ~ Richard Rohr

Metaphorically speaking, have you ever been inside the whale’s belly and spit out on a new shore? Some of you have.  There’s a renewed clarity to your call, your place in the order of things, and your sense of purpose. Transformation is an ongoing process. It’s like being born again, again and again and again. Wowser. It’s a game changer isn’t it? 

8.  “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? … Folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something… that there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo…and it’s worth fighting for… “ – Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings

So what are you fighting for? What’s so good in your life and in our world that you dare not let it go?

9. If you want to learn how to pray watch Fiddler on the Roof. Tevye is always talking to and with God.  Nothing was too unimportant, even an injury to his horse. 

“Dear God, was that necessary? Did you have to make him lame just before the Sabbath? That wasn’t nice. It’s enough you pick on me. Bless me with five daughters, a life of poverty, that’s all right. But what have you got against my horse? Really, sometimes I think, when things are too quiet up there, you say to yourself, ‘Let’s see, what kind of mischief can I play on my friend, Tevye? ‘“

Honest, bold prayers can and should be prayed. Haven’t we all wondered about the circumstances of our lives? Haven’t we all wondered whether or not there is some kind of mischief maker, meddling with our lives, that God seems to have lost sight of? An honest conversation with our Maker is never a bad thing to do. 

In many respects, my Rumblings are prayers. I try to write these things ‘unto the Lord’. Each week there’s a big portion of “help us, O God” and “save us from our enemies” going on. There’s also a healthy dose of  “Lord, help us come to our senses.”  

10. I believe children and other living things are far more valuable than assault rifles and absurd, dangerous, and self-serving  interpretations of the 2nd Amendment. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it. 

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

If you enjoy the beautiful guitar music, you can learn more about Steve Wick and how to purchase his music on his website.

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Margo Tirado is a psychotherapist, life coach, speaker, storyteller and author. Her book Own Your Voice is powerful and worth checking out if you’ve ever struggled with codependency or stating your own needs. Margo writes about 8 emotional habits that empower women to be seen, heard, and fearless. Owning your voice isn’t only about making yourself heard, it’s about believing that what you have to say matters. If this has been a place of struggle in your life, then you need to hear from Margo Tirado!

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