Social Justice & Advocacy Column: Mothering
Carl Jung says, “Creativity comes from the realm of the mothers.” This too is part of Mother’s Day—to celebrate and practice our creativity and moral imagination.
Creation spirituality and today’s creation story from science remind us how creative the universe is and how busy it has been birthing from the first millisecond of the fireball. And how it has birthed something colossal in scope—two trillion galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars—and our tiny, fragile, beauty packed earth which in turn is busy creating amazing beings after amazing beings.
Creativity and motherhood is not restricted to the human, it is not anthropocentric and it is happening all the time with every species animate and inanimate. As Meister Eckhart puts it, “What does God do all day long? God lies on a maternity bed giving birth.”
Matthew Fox
(image: Navajo & Artist, R.C. Gorman "Mother Earth"
