Day Fourteen: Faith

Word of the Day: Faith

Image of the Day: Snow Goddess in the Labyrinth

Token of the Day: beaded hand necklace (originally from the Tate Gallery from an exhibition - origin unknown!)

Faith - the day after Hope! My pondering on faith today has been mostly away from the house but has been an inward journey.

Yesterday's blog was unfinished in that i did not include the journey i took to the Bield and into dreams. I would strongly recommend looking at the facilitator's website. Fran Marquis-Faulkes is an awesome artist and a skilled dreamworker and facilitator (http://www.erehwon.org.uk/) The detail of my dream journey is not for this blog but it is journalled and the essence of it (i think) is:

I now have both the key

and the door

I can unlock and open

I can even step through

and i can still close the door when i need to

and i can even lock it behind me.

Today i attended the service of thanksgiving for the life and work of Professor Marcella Althaus-Reid (http://www.althaus-reid.com/). I dedicate today's blog to her - mystic, academic, queer theologian.

Today is also the Feast Day of St Perpetua who was arrested and executed for her faith alongwith her companion Felicitas. Their picture is the cover of the Queer Commentary to which Marcella contributed. The visions that Perpetua had during her imprisonment are committed in writing in the genre known as "Passion". No longer surprising that the same words are started to pepper my blog like cairns on the path...

Faith

leap over

my lack

of faith

touch my doubt

with the certainty

of your faith in me.

Faithful friend makes me

sound like a dear old dog

flopped in front of the fire

tail thumping on the rug

i long to be filled with faith

as a vessel,

as a vase of flowers thirsting for more water

as a river in drought prays for the rain.

Faith can move mountains

Hmmm...what might this mean?

don't earthquakes move mountains

causing chaos, death, fear?

Faith

root me to Your earth

help me reach the stars

fill me to overflowing with courage

that i become Your body

that i embody Your love.

Marcella - whose faith never dwindled but burned brightly in the world. Your light burns in us. May we never let it go out. Rest in peace, in joy, in God.