Joyce Rupp Quotes

“SOUL CONTRACTIONS My mother ages
all too quickly now,
the latest illness
claiming more chunks
of her vitality each day.
This beloved woman
whose womb held my body,
I now hold
in the chalice of my vigilance. Sadness and sorrow
pulse inside my spirit,
a kindred soul-contraction
resonating with her spiritual gestation
as she prepares
during these final years
for her birth into eternity. Dear mother,
I, who burst forth from
your womb
on a sunny morning in June,
embrace you now with gratitude,
praying to let you go freely,
to encourage your spirit to wing forward peacefully
into the mystery
of the One Great Womb,
where there is space
enough
to embrace us all.”
― Joyce Rupp, Joyce Rupp: Essential Writings