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SOMETIMES I WONDER IF.......  Sometimes I wonder if Mary breastfed Jesus. if she cried when he bit her or if she sobbed when he would not latch. and sometimes I wonder if this is all too vulgar to ask in a church full of men without milk stains on their shirts or coconut oil on their breasts preaching from pulpits off limits to the Mother of God. but then i think of feeding Jesus, birthing Jesus, the expulsion of blood and smell of sweat, the salt of a mother’s tears onto the soft head of the Salt of the Earth, feeling lonely and tired annoyed overwhelmed loving and i think, if the vulgarity of birth is not honestly preached by men who carry power but not burden, carry privilege but not labor, carry authority but not submission, then it should not be preached at all. because the real scandal of the Birth of God lies in the cracked nipples of a 14 year old girl and not in the sermons of ministers who say women are too delicate to lead. -Kaitlin Hardy Shetler |
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Ahhh............. Well said~~~
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I agree with Rocket... well said. The painting is so beautiful too, thank you for posting it for all to see.
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VERY WELL SAID INDEED.
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