It is time to enter into the natal season of the soul! Advent is the time in the liturgical cycle that invites us to actively nurture the birth of new life – in us. It is the ripe time, the Kairos moment for consciously opening as much as we are able our inner faculties that are capable of life-bearing and life-giving wisdom that we long for. Advent is a time for spiritual midwifery.
Read More“We are all of us together carried in the one world-womb; yet each of us is our own little microcosm in which the Incarnation is wrought independently with degrees of intensity and shades that are incommunicable.”
—Teilhard de Chardin
This advent season we are considering our own conception, our own carrying within, the capacity to bear our own divine offering, to bring into this world our unique and particular incarnation of divine life in this time.
Read MoreWe are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I also do not give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time. When the Son of God is begotten in us.
—Meister Eckhart