God: Father-Mother

~~~ Isaiah 49:8-15~~~ Psalm 145 ~~~ John 5:17-30 ~~~

Can a mother forget her infant,

be without tenderness for the child of her womb?

Even should she forget,

I will never forget you.

God does not need proof of loyalty
 to his teachings through fighting battles.
God looks for the degree to which we have love,
tenderness, compassion in our heart.

God is our Father and God is our Mother too.
Saints and Popes have testified God as both Father and Mother.

A mother can give her child milk to suck, but our precious mother, 
Jesus, can feed us with himself. He does so most courteously 
and most tenderly, with the Blessed Sacrament, which is the precious 
food of true life. With all the sweet sacraments he sustains us 
most mercifully and graciously. Julian of Norwich

God watches over us, care for us, nourishes us
as a mother watches, cares and nourishes us in the physical life.

Julian tells us she,
...saw with complete certainty that God, before creating us, 
loved us, and His love never lessened and never will. 
In this love he accomplished all his works, and in this love he oriented 
all things to our good and in this love our life is eternal.

A mother begins loving the child she will have from
the beginning of her maternity.

Even when a couple adopts they begin loving the child
who will come to them as soon as they get confirmation
of being chosen by the birth mother.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

A mother's love for her child is much the same...
there is no between.
The child is within the womb of the mother,
being nurtured and protected at all times for nine months.

God as our mother allows us to be constantly be reborn
through the Sacraments he gave us through his Son, Jesus.

Lent is a time for us to recall the various ways
God is both our Father and our Mother.
We are in God and God is in us.
We were created in the image and likeness of God;
just as a child favors the image and likeness to their birth parents.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,
so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.

Julian tells us to believe that
'all will be well'
This is exactly what we hear in the readings today.

The hour is coming when the tombs will open
 and all who hear his voice will come out.

Those who do good deeds will be resurrected
into the life of Jesus.

Blessings
from our Mother...God.
~~~Peace~~~