Advent Reflections: A Response to: Expecting a Movement From God

A reflection by Chaplain Donna Zuroweste, rBCC, MDiv.

As a cis-gendered woman with a MDiv. from the Order of Preachers who has the same homiletical education and training as the friars, a question like "expecting a movement from God" always a elicits a wry smile.

The institutional Church misses so much when it denies the ambo preaching of 51% of the lenses and lived experiences of God's children.

Fecundity is a natural, Cosmological part not only of feminine humans, but also of the rarely taught or mentioned Divine Feminine.  Men most often preach about Human Jesus, made in their image, but rarely the Cosmological Christ, Who reveals God's very self in every living atom in the ever evolving Cosmos.

We are embedded in God's "movement" in every moment of our lives, if we look through feminine lenses.

The Heavens reveal Divine Light emanating from Holy Darkness throughout the heavenly bodies that emerge in night's darkness, and in the color-full light of the emerging Dawn.

The very seasons of this wee planet reveal the Trinity's Divine Movement.  As in the photo attached, ©️ Z Designs, we see the leaves' detritus contributing to the fecundity needed for the berries to bring forth new life in the spring.  We see the ice embalmed berries, waiting to drop into the womb of the soil created by the detritus, or the belly of a creature to maintain life or provide fertilizer for new life, planted or creature.  We see the ice providing the life giving Holy Water to move that process along.  We "see" berries waiting for which life giving way that they will regenerated.  We see the life giving beauty of the delicate ice crystals, which will move through the new life process; an intricate sign that the Trinity, especially the ever transforming Holy Spirit, is always moving around, through, before, beside and behind us.

Through hidden feminine lenses, like Black Moses' daughter Paz, we see beyond the physicality of human Jesus, into the awe and wonder of the Holy Spirit ever transforming the entire Cosmos, as the Cosmological Christ is ever revealing the Divine Presence, in Whom we live and move and have our be-ingness.

May the awe and wonder of the Advent Cosmos awaken the Divine Beauty not often revealed in you and yours!

Chaplain Donna Zuroweste, rBCC, MDiv.