Morning Meditation: Inclusive Language for God
In a small Anabaptist congregation in Lancaster County, an elderly farmer once opened his prayer with words that silenced the room: "Mother-Father God, you who...
This is devotionals, drawing on Ephesians 2:14. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and joy.
In a small Anabaptist congregation in Lancaster County, an elderly farmer once opened his prayer with words that silenced the room: "Mother-Father God, you who knit me together the way my wife's hands knit blankets for our grandbabies — hold us now." Some shifted uncomfortably. Others wept. He had named something true about the God who declares in Isaiah 49:15, "Can a mother forget the infant at her breast?"…
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