“Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you….”
Go and tell that fox for me, ‘’I will finish my work….
How I have desired to gather your children as a hen…”
—from Luke 13.31-34
What guts!— to choose to be the hen of God
in the kingdom of the fox—
unmoved by the threats of the predator,
choosing to be gentle and unprotected;
surrendering self as center, to claim the masses as family;
risking death, to give life; to offer shelter.
I am not a citizen of the Empire of Anxiety,
nor fearful of the Fox.
I belong to the Mother Hen of God.
I live in the land of resurrection.
Beloved, I choose to follow. Be my love,
my power and my shield, my hope and my courage.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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