Matrix

by Lauren Groff

why should babies be born into sin, why should she pray to the invisible forces, why would god be a trinity, why should she, who felt her greatness hot in her blood, be considered lesser because the first woman was molded from a rib and ate a fruit and thus lost lazy Eden?

Matins Lauds Prime Terce Sext None Vespers Compline.

For this community is precious, there is a place here even for the maddest, for the discarded, for the difficult, in this enclosure there is love enough here even for the most unlovable of women.

the closest she had been to god—not in fact invisible parent, not sun warming the earth and coaxing the seeds from the soil—but the nothing at the center of the self.

the silence beyond the Word in which there lives infinity.

Everything possible with everything given has been done.

To see god, who is not split in three, but singular. God, sole, female.