{UAH} Happy Mother's Day 2015

Wishing you all Mothers a Happy Day 2015.  
Wishing you all a Happy Mother's Day.
Where would we be without our mothers!
Where would our children be without us? 
Where would our mothers be without their mothers?
 I can't imagine!

Mental mothers, Mentors;

Biological mothers, who give birth;

Surrogate mothers, who have taken up the role where our mothers were not;

Clinical mothers, who are midwives, midwifery, nurses, doctors who help in bringing us in this world.

Psychological mothers; who know what we think and why;

Spiritual mothers, who lead us to Our Father in Heaven;

All who have mothered and are mothering in any form, and have held us with a bosom of a Mother.
All women who have nurtured us; cared for us gently and tenderly;

All of us women who are nurturing others. 
For mothering is a gift from God, Our Mother, Creator.

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man (the humans) in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

"27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

"29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

30 and 8to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food "; and it was so.

31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very 9good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/genesis/passage/?q=genesis+1:26-31

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A: Female images for God (drawn from women's biological activity) 

1. God as a Mother:..

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I was twenty-two and just a year out of college when the issue of gender inclusive language for God first grabbed my attention, via a bumper sticker, no less: "Trust in God--She will provide." I can still recall my immediate sense that God was being diminished, even insulted, and I dismissed it as a…

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g. a mother who calls, teaches, holds, heals and feeds her young (Hosea 11:1-4) This poem is in the first person, where in Hebrew there is no distinction between male and female forms; the speaker can be either male or female. The series of acti..

 
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B: Feminine images for God (drawn from women's cultural activity).
1. God as a seamstress making clothes for Israel to wear (Neh. 9:21)....

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C: Additional examples of the divine feminine.
1. Female bird imagery. Yahweh is described by an analogy to the action of a female bird protecting her young (Ps. 17:8, 36:7, 57:1, 91:1, 4; Isa. 31:5; Dt. 32:11-12)....

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2. God as Mother Bear (Hosea 13:8), a fierce image associated with the profound attachment of the mother to her cubs. God's rage against those who withhold gratitude is that of a bear "robbed of her cubs."
3. Holy Spirit (in Hebrew, feminine; in...

http://www.womensordination.org/.../female-images-of-god.../

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Hosea 11:3-4 God described as a mother...

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 Deuteronomy 32:11-12 God described as a mother eagle...
 
QUOTE:Isaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother...

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  God as a Mother in the Bible

October 5, 2010 Joel L. Watts



REFERENCE:

Not Only a Father #2: God as Mother in the Bible

by thaliakr 6th April 2013...   

Not Only a Father #2: God as Mother in the Bible - Sacraparental

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Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9