Joyous Mother’s Day to You!

Ginny Freeman shared her original poem Life Is a Circle with us in worship last Sunday. 

We offer it here as a way to honor all divine and human mothers.

 

      Life Is a Circle

Life is a wheel, a circle,

A spiral or an egg,

A many layered onion.

 

Once upon a time

Swimming in my body’s ocean,

I breathed for both of us

In the days before your birth.

Turning, kicking,

My own silent swimmer,

You curled

In a never-ending circle

A great mandala

Eternity,

Circle within circle,

Egg within egg

This great work of art,

This doorway

This essence of life,

Repeats, repeats, repeats…

My body curving outward

Both breast and womb

Announcing to the world

And to myself

That you were coming.

And then you came

Unfurled in all your beauty

And I curled you in my arms.

I rocked you there

And you spiraled down to sleep.

But then you woke

And I held you

And you held me

In the circle of our love

You stretched and grew

Uncurled your arms

Open to the world

And drew it in

Became a woman too

And have conceived.

The mystery repeats.

This little one you bear

Your second heartbeat

For a little while

Beats in time with yours forever

 

 Sending pulses down the ages

Like a star, beaming light.

I hold you once again

As this little life begins in you

As you began in me

As you will hold me

When mine curls into sleep

And rock me

Into eternity.

Life is a wheel

A spiral or an egg,

A many layered onion.

Generation unto generation

All one. 

Ginny Freeman 
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12-26-09

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