S1E17: The Mystical Experience of Mothers

Enjoy The Mystic's Mother's Day's 2022 edition. While holding space for the reality that not everyone's experience of a mother may be equally nurturing, this discussion explores the question of what our mothers teach us about God. This may be character traits we come to appreciate more fully as adults or specific experiences that left a lasting imprint on our spiritual formation. A saying from the Jewish tradition says, "God cannot be everywhere, so he created mothers." How do we see God more clearly and bear God more fully when we understand both what it means to parent someone in faith and what it means to receive God as "mother" in our own lives?