
“Get Up”
Scripture: Psalm 23; Acts 9: 36-41
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC
May 12, 2019
And I believe it’s never been more urgent for us to make space for the truth that mothering reveals in such clear relief, the truth given to us by our great mother—by the mothering forces of the universe, the power of birthing, the potency of living at that threshold between life and death—because that is where we all are—birthing and being birthed, tasting death and being told to get up, to rise up, to wise up, to wake up—to find a way to make and keep life, to tend to the living and to the dead.