"This is what it means to bring healing"
Renew us from our exhaustion. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit to overflow.
Welcome to the Mothering Spirit newsletter! Each Saturday morning, you’ll receive a round-up of the week’s posts—perfect for your weekend reading.
This week on Mothering Spirit
Kirby Hoberg traces her family history through generational trauma and the hope of healing: “I am now a mother continuing a lineage of survival. It is up to me to responsibly pass down the truth of our family including translating the traumatic. I need to understand what happened to my family line, because if I don’t I will never see its impact.”
Rakhi McCormick prays for the grace and mercy to love widely, starting with our families and reaching out into the world: “Set our hearts on fire with the passion of Your pierced heart, that by the power of Your love we demand justice for the weak and the exploited and the oppressed and the abused.”
In Friday’s resource round-up, we asked readers: How has learning more about your family of origin shaped your parenting?
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A final word for reflection
“Yes, the ordinary can be frustrating and hard. We are forgiven our quick gripes and impatience as imperfect humans. But if we don’t hold them up against the astonishing background of what we do have, we miss the relief of the whole. The chiaroscuro of our small lives set in contrast with what might have been, could have been, is now for others.
Ordinary Time calls us to deeper compassion for those whose lives feel anything but ordinary. We shine and we shine, and this earthly existence is too fleeting and fragile to miss it for a single holy day.”
From The Extraordinary Ordinary Time, a new e-book now available from Mothering Spirit.