“Picturing God must precede any speaking about God, for our pictures accompany all our words and they continue long after we fall silent before God. Images – the language of the psyche – are the coin of life; they touch our emotions as well as our thoughts; they reach down into our bodies as well as toward our ideas. They arrive unbidden, startling, after our many years of effort to craft them.” -Ann Ulanov (from Picturing God, Daimon Verlag, 2002, pg. 164)
Divine Mother
She cradles the babe so tenderly
in arms of love,
neck curving as she gazes down,
an arc of grace,
part of the circle created by two
merging into One.
Divine Mother,
treasuring moments of unity;
weaned child,
satisfied and content,
basking in mutual delight.
-Sue Magrath