Comments on: Epiphany 1: Baptized and Beloved http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/ Artist and writer Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word & image & faith. Wed, 09 May 2012 23:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Beth http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1737 Beth Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:17:45 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1737 Thank you Jan! Thank you Jan!

]]> By: juniper http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1733 juniper Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:49:06 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1733 Wow, what a great story. Thanks for sharing this. Wow, what a great story. Thanks for sharing this.

]]> By: Tess http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1722 Tess Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:16:26 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1722 Reading this it was as if everything in the world stopped to listen. Extraordinarily moving. Like Marisa, I hope I never get the story of Fayette out of my head. Reading this it was as if everything in the world stopped to listen. Extraordinarily moving. Like Marisa, I hope I never get the story of Fayette out of my head.

]]> By: claire http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1718 claire Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:42:47 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1718 Simply beautiful. Thank you for the gift of Fayette -- of beloved, precious child of God, and beautiful to behold. She reminds me of a young woman I have known. She is an angel among the angels now. Thanks again. Simply beautiful. Thank you for the gift of Fayette — of beloved, precious child of God, and beautiful to behold. She reminds me of a young woman I have known. She is an angel among the angels now. Thanks again.

]]> By: Sarah Buteux http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1716 Sarah Buteux Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:56:23 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1716 Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I can't stop reading your post and hope to share this story with my congregation this Sunday before we renew our baptism vows. What a blessing. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I can’t stop reading your post and hope to share this story with my congregation this Sunday before we renew our baptism vows. What a blessing.

]]> By: earthchick http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1715 earthchick Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:18 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1715 WOW! Thank you for this. I just turned in my sermon title earlier this morning - "Beloved" - and was thinking in this direction when I found your post (linked to in your comment on the RevGals lectionary leanings). This is awesome. Thank you for sharing it! WOW! Thank you for this. I just turned in my sermon title earlier this morning – “Beloved” – and was thinking in this direction when I found your post (linked to in your comment on the RevGals lectionary leanings). This is awesome. Thank you for sharing it!

]]> By: mary beth http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1714 mary beth Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:43:10 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1714 I have all the goosebumps in the world. thank you. I have all the goosebumps in the world. thank you.

]]> By: girlwhocriedepiphany http://paintedprayerbook.com/2010/01/03/epiphany-1-baptized-and-beloved/#comment-1713 girlwhocriedepiphany Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:06:52 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1192#comment-1713 ‘…and God is still working on me. If you come back tomorrow, I’ll be so beautiful I’ll take your breath away!’ I hope that I never get Fayette's story out of my head. To be haunted by her, accompanied by her is a blessing to be sure. As discussions spin round the baptism of our daughter, your words are especially poignant. My husband and I are no longer church goers and though I feel like I love an incredibly intense spiritual journey, so often in communion with Spirit, it is not a path that has lead me back to the church door. We are happy to have our baby initiated into our families' faith, but the conversation of "what next?" swirls on. Some are looking for promises that her baptism will get us back in a pew each week, but I am not yet ready to take that step. You allow me to step back from familial politics and expectations and simply look in wonder at what the waters truly are. Blessings and thanks, Marisa ‘…and God is still working on me. If you come back tomorrow, I’ll be so beautiful I’ll take your breath away!’

I hope that I never get Fayette’s story out of my head. To be haunted by her, accompanied by her is a blessing to be sure.

As discussions spin round the baptism of our daughter, your words are especially poignant. My husband and I are no longer church goers and though I feel like I love an incredibly intense spiritual journey, so often in communion with Spirit, it is not a path that has lead me back to the church door. We are happy to have our baby initiated into our families’ faith, but the conversation of “what next?” swirls on. Some are looking for promises that her baptism will get us back in a pew each week, but I am not yet ready to take that step. You allow me to step back from familial politics and expectations and simply look in wonder at what the waters truly are.

Blessings and thanks,
Marisa

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