theatokos | I needed encouragment and the universe provided (Reply)

There is an Irish sister (old word for that: nun) here and we talked about Mary some. She suggested that I ask Her what She wants me to reveal about Her. Huh. I wish I had thought of that earlier. There's a part of me that's afraid that I'll ask and get the kind of answer that requires an entirely different set of research and assumptions and I'll be stuck starting over. Oh that She will be kind.

I also received some encouragement from a feminist Muslim student here. She thinks my work is important and exciting. Yay! Sometimes I feel like what I'm so interested in is nothing more than ivory tower pointlessness, that it will have no bearing on anything or anyone. But, there are some people out there who encourage me and I realize that if nothing else this course of study has deep meaning to me. And that there are at least two people out in the world who will buy my book in 10 years!

And now to clean the apartment and myself for Feast Bay tonight.

PS- I'm tired of keeping this friends only. Screw that.