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Today I thought I'd share a poem and sculpture combo that I created when heavily pregnant with our youngest. Whilst watching feet work their way across my stomache from the inside, I contemplated Mary awaiting the imminent arrival Jesus' birth. WAITING TO KNOW YOU Waiting to know you, to meet you, to love you. Hiccups and stretches, judders and squirms. Flesh of my flesh, treasure within me, Promised, chosen, favour unearned. Who will you be and where will you go? Ready to hold you, to share you, to love you. Ready to guide you, to stroke you, to dress you. To hold your hand & to watch you grow. 'Waiting to know you' 2011. Mixed media sculpture HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
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Joanne
25/12/2016 02:39:54 pm
I love how this experience can open a new perspective and be revealed through your art in both image and words. I love the two together, thanks for sharing. I have often thought about the passage from Luke 2:19 in this context: "But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart." only now the heart is a spiritual womb. I think she faithfully carried all the words spoken about Jesus and over time the image would poke through from the inside out and then one day at a wedding feast she knew with absolute certainty the timing of His revealing and what it would look like. Maybe it is also how we carry His words to us. We treasure them and even though we only see the occasional poking through we rejoice in His work in us as it grows. Leave a Reply. |
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