Kate Braestrup writes in Chapter 11 on page 117
"But I suspected and even feared that no one who actually needed a woman of God would be fooled into thinking I was it. I have to say, though, that mourners and wardens have thus far proved to be remarkably accepting, reassuringly capable of seeing beyond me, in all my flawed particularity, to the power, mercy, and love of God and neighbor that I, by grace alone, am striving to embody."
And we should all strive, shouldn't we, to be a conduit of God's love and grace? Is that not our function here?
Kate Braestup seems to me to be one of those prophetic women and men that UUs second source describes.
We all our teachers of God. The question is what am I teaching.
ReplyDeleteI love Rev. Braestrup's book and I am grateful that you picked it for the nonfiction read for September. Would people be interested in reading Naomi Klein's book No Is Not Enough for October?
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