Reflection from today’s Kindred Project Prayer Group
On of the readings today was: from “God Speaks Through Wombs” by Drew Jackson. It was entitled. “The Anointing” Based on Luke 4:18.
The Anointing
There are times when that something comes over you. You know those times. Pay attention. Let it fill you to overflowing. Allow it to move your pen to write. Open your mouth to say those words, at which you tremble. Pick up that brush to paint. Or sweep. But whether that something moves you to do, let the Spirit take you.
To shake the foundations and make new worlds.
To break open new paradigms and design an unforeseen story.
To love. It will always move you to love.
When it comes it will drip slowly. Like oil. Running down the crown of your head, leaving little droplets of sweet smelling perfume in the dust around you. Don’t wipe your brow. Let it fall. The place on which you stand is holy ground.
Sometimes that genius will find you in the midnight hour. Other times it will overtake you at the high point of the day when all eyes are on you. No matter. The time will always be firth. I have learned not be be surprised that I’ve been chosen. We all have been chosen for love. The anointing was given at creations dawn. The oil always drips. Waiting for you, and for me, to stand under its flow.
The passage was read, and then we sank down into prayer. I write my prayers, not because I think that I cannot speak audibly to God, but because by writing my prayers, I can look back some time later and see how I have grown, or how I have not or how God provides, and helps me understand what I really needed. Oftentimes I look back at my writings and see: God is always there. This is what I wrote today:
“In a world that expects productivity, whether out of necessity or expectation, the never-ending pressure to do – to succeed without flaw, to create your own worth is like a tiger ready to pounce at the first misstep. When you let your guard down, you are entering the short grass where your every move can be seen and makes you vulnerable.
But God is never a predator. God waits in the same way as the tiger, but not to pounce – to devour – or destroy, but instead to catch you, to protect you, and to pull you closer to the safe places, where like a womb, you can grow – develop – and let your heart once again syncopate with the heart of the One who cradles you. Then, when you are renewed – you are released, to find others, and bring them to God for renewal. The renewal may be overwhelming to some, or maybe to all of us. But it is what we deeply long for. It is the only thing worth working for. Presence.
Presence – knowing that no matter what, it is well with OUR souls, when we know the way to the place where presence once again saves you.” Deb Washer 1/19/2022
Pastor Deb Washer 