"I know why we - why I - don't want to commune at the table of grief, don't want to sabbath with dead hope. It's painful and devastating. No one wants the stillness of a Saturday to consider the promise of death." Read more >>
That was fun to imagine and write, God The Gardner pausing Their work for whimsy and hope and imagination. Keeps that childlike spirit alive even in the act of creating a universe!
Nya, this is a gorgeous rich reflection! God reminded me a few weeks ago of something I had noted in the margin of my Bible about another correlation between Eden and the garden where Jesus was buried.
In John's Gospel, the only one in which this is recorded, Mary Magdalene is mourning in the garden because Jesus' body isn't where it should be. Peter and John have come, seen, and gone away perplexed.
While she remains with her grief, she is approached by a man she thinks is the gardener. When he says her name, her eyes are opened and she sees her Savior.
Eve was deceived in the first garden, and her eyes were opened to her sin. The original Gardener came looking for her, despite knowing what had happened.
When Jesus greets Mary, her eyes are opened, and he entrusts her with the good news. Could it be that Jesus chose Mary as the first to see the risen Lord in order to reverse the curse of the first garden and release women from the consequences of the Fall, specifically but not limited to the curse of subjugation to their husbands in Genesis 3:16. Now ALL are equal (Galatians 3:28), for the enemy who brought about death has been crushed and swallowed up in victory by the Source of Life.
Is this amazing or what? Would love to hear your thoughts.
I definitely think God moves with intention, with storytelling, and with timing. Jesus as Griot does this really great thing in his living by resolving the loose ends, healing the wounds, and binding the brokenness we've allowed to be main themes in the collective story. This nod to the Genesis story is for us to remember the original intent; more than being equal *now* we have always been equal and are freed to tell the story from the original instructions <3
The part about the galaxy’s wishes!
The poetry all over this writing.
So beautiful to read in the morning while it’s still dark out and there’s stillness in my home.
That was fun to imagine and write, God The Gardner pausing Their work for whimsy and hope and imagination. Keeps that childlike spirit alive even in the act of creating a universe!
“What is a garden to a galaxy?” 🤩
<3 You know what's funny? I was really unsure about this opening line and it seemed to be a good one!
I just look up all night when I read your work, Nya. It is so delightful to think of cosmic dandelions and a Creator who says, "oh, look! A wish!"
Also, I sit with the tomb-table of Saturday and the truth that death needs tending to as much as life. Sigh.
Thank you so much.
🙏🏽 I'm so grateful for this 🥹 it's a gift that my words are with you when you look up at the galaxies, and when you sit at the table in the garden 💙
Nya, this is a gorgeous rich reflection! God reminded me a few weeks ago of something I had noted in the margin of my Bible about another correlation between Eden and the garden where Jesus was buried.
In John's Gospel, the only one in which this is recorded, Mary Magdalene is mourning in the garden because Jesus' body isn't where it should be. Peter and John have come, seen, and gone away perplexed.
While she remains with her grief, she is approached by a man she thinks is the gardener. When he says her name, her eyes are opened and she sees her Savior.
Eve was deceived in the first garden, and her eyes were opened to her sin. The original Gardener came looking for her, despite knowing what had happened.
When Jesus greets Mary, her eyes are opened, and he entrusts her with the good news. Could it be that Jesus chose Mary as the first to see the risen Lord in order to reverse the curse of the first garden and release women from the consequences of the Fall, specifically but not limited to the curse of subjugation to their husbands in Genesis 3:16. Now ALL are equal (Galatians 3:28), for the enemy who brought about death has been crushed and swallowed up in victory by the Source of Life.
Is this amazing or what? Would love to hear your thoughts.
I definitely think God moves with intention, with storytelling, and with timing. Jesus as Griot does this really great thing in his living by resolving the loose ends, healing the wounds, and binding the brokenness we've allowed to be main themes in the collective story. This nod to the Genesis story is for us to remember the original intent; more than being equal *now* we have always been equal and are freed to tell the story from the original instructions <3