She Who Brings the Sun

She Who Brings the Sun
Oil pastels on paper
approx 10" x 10"

The Mother carries the sun across the skies 
between Her antlers.

This is truth.

Mother Deer Mother

I happened to find this video clip in my face book feed this

morning.


As you might imagine this image took my breath away.


The contrast between the cold ritualized church and the pagan

wildness of the animal speaks about the state of my soul.




You can read more about The Mother in Her female reindeer 

garb here.

No Sacraments for You, Faggots

The Sojourner

Did anyone notice?

The world wide Anglican Church this week 
has upheld the traditional version of marriage 
as a sacrament between men and women.


And they have taken some toys away from 
the American Episcopalian Church for actually daring to assume that God loves all of Her Children.


Not too many people care one way or the other.

But for those of us who do care my comment, after pondering this issue deeply, is this:



What the frick is wrong with these people?

Baptism and The Episcopagen

"The Conversation", oil pastels

Sometimes you read something that readjusts 

your thinking.

 

You know, the way one of those old Kodak 

viewfinders moved you  onto a new picture 

when you pushed down the lever at the side.

I just read Martha T.'s blog about baptism.

(link here)

I really like the analogy of finding God in the 

shit.  Jungians believe that is the path to 

individuation and I have to say that I agree.  

I don't see individuation as a goal.  At least 

not for me - the pile of shit I have to integrate 

will take 1000 lifetimes to work through.

It's a process.

But her words got me thinking about baptism 

and what it could possibly mean to an 

Episcopagan.

Is it enough to know that such ideas as Martha's 

are floating about beneath the rigid veneer of 

the church?  I don't know if it makes me feel 

any more warm and fuzzy about Christianity but 

I am grateful that at least in 2016 she won't be 

burned at the stake ...

because such ideas give me hope.