Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;

the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.

God’s way is in the whirlwind and the storm,

and clouds are the dust of his feet.

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When we try to express power through the whirlwind and the dust of our feet, the result looks like Pigpen traipsing through a Peanuts cartoon. Claim your compassion and mercy as an image-bearer of a loving God.

Embody the calming force of peace amidst the storms around you.

About today’s sculpture “Tetsadi,” from her Life Stories series, Maria commented: According to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Tetsadi is a Life-Death-Life goddess. The story goes that she carries a large bowl. When turned one way, it’s the womb; turned another way, it’s the breast; turned another way, it’s the grave. According to legend, when someone dies, Tetsadi comes to collect their soul, which she places into her bowl and swirls it around until it gets smaller and smaller and eventually becomes a tiny little dot, like a seed. Then, she flies out into the night and places the little seed into a woman who has just made love so it can come back as a new life. In my little smoke-fired sculpture, Tetsadi is just taking the seed out of the bowl, preparing to accompany it to a new life.

*Maria Wickwire creates evocative ceramic sculptures revealing feminine archetypes. “I hope to encourage healing and forgiveness in our sometimes splintering world.” Her studio overlooks Big Lake in northwest Washington. Find Maria and her art at Mariawickwire.com

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