In those days Mary set out and went with haste
to a Judean town in the hill country,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
—Luke 1. 39-40
In out of the way places
you revolutionary women meet,
not to plan campaigns or plot a disturbance,
but to do what revolutionary women do:
give life, celebrate each other, enact hope.
You tend generations (the womb’s work
is only the beginning).
You seek the company of those who know,
who honor the womb of the heart.
You flock with others who cherish the sacred,
who harbor joy even in harsh winter.
Your hope is not approaching from over a horizon
but growing within you, already real.
There is something holy in you
that leaps at the nearness of the holy.
Blessed is she who believes there will be fulfillment
of what Love has promised:
that you shall bear blessing into the world.
Blessed are you and the fruit of your heart,
for it is this love that overcomes the world.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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