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Loading... Prayers To She Who Isby William Cleary
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Poet William Cleary turns the third-person theological writing of Elizabeth Johnson's classic into second-person prayers that everyone can say. With beautiful drawings by Morningstar, here is an "open it anywhere" prayerbook to help us speak--and listen to--the God who cares as passionately about us as a mother for her children in pain. No library descriptions found. |
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The prayers tend towards the verbose and clunky to my ear, a bit reminiscent of the Blue Mountain Arts card style of poetry. But there are some beautiful images, and a broad array of themes strongly clustered around care for the poor, the oppressed, and the earth.
I did particularly like the versicle at the end of each prayer, which in line one, addressed God by a name from the prayer followed by three descriptive gerunds ending in freeing, and line two was always In you we live and move and have our being.
The line-drawing illustrations are a worthy complement to the prayers. I particularly liked the image of ruach, She-who-is blowing creation into being, and the image of God as a woman pouring out a jar of water onto the soil to sustain the growing grain. (