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Day 3: Twelve Days of Mother Love - Fr. John Giuiliani

Pinterest is one of my occasional obsessions and one of my boards is Madonnas and the Divine Feminine. I have several images saved there from my internet travels and have discovered many artists and creators I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. One artist is Fr. John Giuliani who often depicts his icons in the dress of Native Americans or other indigenous peoples. This image is called “Choctaw Virgin Mother & Child.” The company Bridge Building also has many of Fr. Giuliani’s images.

Please join us at Rebecca Brooks Recuerda mi Corazon for her annual 12-day meme featuring madonnas and the divine feminine.

Day 2: 12 Days of Mother Love and Haiku

Thanks to Rebecca at Recuerda mi Corazon, the annual meme 12 Days of Mother Love continues this first week in December. It ends on December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The purpose is to rejoice through art, photography and language that the divine feminine helps us to make sense of the complexities of our sacred ordinary lives. On Fridays Rebecca always hosts Haiku My Heart so today the two memes are combined. 

Even while waiting

She asks why she was chosen

To give the world hope.

This digital Polyvore art and expression set features detail from Botticelli's The Virgin and Child With Saint John and an Angel, 1490. A few years ago Meri Arnett-Kremian posted some of her Polyvore sets and a new world of digital art opened up. Meri, thanks so much. Visit Recuerda mi Corazon to see other offerings from other participants.

 

Day 1 - 12 Days of Mother Love

From December 1-12 each year Rebecca Brooks at Recuerda mi Corazon blog hosts a meme in honor the divine feminine, mothers, Mary, madonnas. This year she is calling it 12 Days of Mother Love. She invites other people to post links leading up to December 12, the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe. This is my first entry for 2017, a SoulCollage® card in the Council suit I call Madonnas Universal. 

In theSoulCollage® method we write statements that usually begin with "I am one who----" It personalizes the card. I am one who is deeply drawn to the Madonna and images of the divine feminine. Lately I have missed my own mom so much more than usual and she has been gone since Dec. 14, 1968. When I close my eyes I imagine myself on her lap, head burrowed against her soft breasts while she reads Poppy the Fairy. There is such power in the feminine, ideally nurturing, ever-teaching and protecting, the one who loves unconditionally, the one who gives birth.  Thank you, momma. You are the one I trust the most, who I long for in the night.

Please visit Recuerda mi Corazon to view the art and creations of other participants in 12 Days of Mother Love.