Friday, December 5, 2014

ADVENT 1: Friday: We Are Pregnant, the Place of Waiting

<When asked about a life lived in Christian authenticity, a Master of Novices once said that to be a Christian was not to know the answers, but to begin to live in the part of the self where the questions are born.…She was speaking of an attitude of listening, of awareness of presence, of an openness to mystery...Pregnancy is at the core of the Christian message. We are pregnant. We are the place of waiting, the place of the question, of the advent. We are the womb through whose pulsing life God is born.">
- Wendy M. Wright, "Wreathed in Flesh and Warm"

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