Deliverance with Models of Respiration, Repair and Resistence

1. Deliverance with Models of Respiration, Repair and Resistence We are sent to find: Mysteries of Grace found with Prayer and Reflection of the Ways of Wisdom when Wondering the Gospel Narratives Let’s play with the gospel stories. Play is defined as a complex concept that eludes precise definition, but it is pleasurable, self-motivated, imaginative, non-goal directed, spontaneous, active, and free of limitations. Quality play involves the whole person: gross motor, fine motor, senses, emotion, intellect, individual growth and social interaction. Let’s play !

2. Come Holy Spirit Come Holy Spirit Fill the Hearts of Us Faithful Enkindle in Us the Fire of Your Love Send forth Your Spirit And we shall be Creative And You shall renew the Face of the Earth

3. Acknowledgement of Role Models and their Stories of Respiration that led to Conflict ResolutionFire, Wind, Spirit I am – Red- Future that starts with Breathing • Barbara Sanders – How to have an unexpected baby at 15 • Iona Macaroni- How to make friends feel like they belong • Louise Whitmore – How to Help All understand that All Creation is Blessed and Valuable • Pat Parker – How to share the understanding of the importance of children • Carter Moor - How to be best friends with Jesus and help him in his life giving ways • Rita Write - How to inspire youth after a long lived life to give to the poor and not give up • Hospice Team for Rachel Dangerfield – How to prepare for death and the hope of everlasting life • Gabriel visits with Mary – Luke 1:26-38 • Visiting wise friends Elizabeth with Mary – Luke 1: 39-45 • Canticle of Mary –Magnificat – Luke 1:46-55 • Sayings about the Holy Spirit – Luke 12:10-12/ Let the children come to me Luke 18:15-17 • Martha and Mary relieved brother is alive – John 11:1-45 • Answers to prayer – Luke 11:9-13/Parable of the persistent widow Luke 18:1-8 • Women at the tomb - Mark 15:40-41,47;16:1-11 Mt. 27:55-56,61; 28:1-10 Luke 23:49,55-56; 24:1-25

4. Acknowledgement of Role Models and their Stories of Repair that led to Conflict Resolution –Water I am- repair the past to have a future- Blue • Rachel Dangerfield: How to give birth and care for a baby when alone and then to help others with similar crisis’. • Patti Littlewood: How to convince those with power to expand their understanding of fairness even if you are from a different country and custom • Sonjia Martinez: How to hold on to the self when abused in childhood and with twelve years of a loveless marriage with many children to care for. • Kandy Sanders: How to survive and move beyond two extremely horrible car accidents. • Katharine Mure: How to establish a foundation of developing spirituality in grandchildren when their parents are agnostic. • Dorothy Crystal: How to remain intimate relations and still offer comfort to a dying compainion. • Betty Agnosto: How to remain faithful while moving a community of faith to it’s next level of development. • Samaritan Woman at the Well – Jn 4:1-42 • Syro-phoenician (Gentile and Greek) and by religion a Canaanite Woman and her Daughter – Mk 7:24-30 / Matt 15:21-28 • Bleeding Woman of Twelve Years – Mk 5:25-34 / Lk 8:43-48 /Matt 9:20-22 refer to Lev 15:25 • Daughter who was dead -Jairus’s 12 Year Old Daughter – Mk 5:21-24, 35-43; Lk 8:40-42,49-56; Matt 9:18-19, 23-26 • Woman who stood straight – Lk 13:10-17 • Woman Who Anoints Jesus’ Head – Mark 14:3-9(8a “She has done what she could”) / Matthew 26:6-13 • Mary and the Gardener of Lk 8:1-3; Jn 19:25 and John 20:1-18 • Abundant Woman- Bathed Jesus’ feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair-Luke 7:36-50 Jennette

5. Acknowledgement of Role Models and their Stories of Resilience that led to Conflict Resolution- Earth I am- living abundantly in the Present- yellow • Rhoda Blake – How to help a desolate person during adoration • Kelly Green – How to teach conflict resolution to unaware groups • Laura Danders – Knowing the dangerous work of a mother’s adult children has merit • Donna Bojanges – Giving one’s self and resources until it goes beyond all expectation • Roxanne Conan – Keeping a lifestyle of authentic living as the forefront of decisions • Regina Baschab – Continuing to keep children’s memory alive and important • Women Prisoners at a State Correctional Institute – Sharing complete compassion and understanding of the pain suffered at the cross especially since Jesus was not guilty • Anna the Prophetess – Luke 2:36-38 • Mary at the Wedding Feast of Cana – John 2:1-12 • Salome - Mt. 20:20-23; 27:55-56; Mark 15:40-41; 16:1 • By their means, they supported them Luke 8:1-3 • Girl Accusing Peter of knowing Jesus, the High Priest’s Maid – Mk 14:66-72; Matthew 26:69-75; Luke 22:54-62; John 18:15-17 • Widow of Nain – Luke 7:11-17 • Women at the Cross – Mk 15:40-41; Matt 27:55; Lk 8:2 and Lk 23:27, 35; John 19:25

6. Acknowledgement of Role Models and their Stories of Respiration that led to Conflict Resolution • Barbara Sanders – How to have an unexpected baby at 15 • Iona Macaroni- How to make friends feel like they belong • Louise Whitmore – How to Help All understand that All Creation is Blessed and Valuable • Raul Eidenberg – How to share the understanding of the importance of children • Carter Moor - How to be best friends with Jesus and help him in his life giving ways • Rita Write - How to inspire youth after a long lived life to give to the poor and not give up • Hospice Team for Rachel Dangerfield – How to prepare for death and the hope of everlasting life • Gabriel visits with Mary – Luke 1:26-38 • Visiting wise friends Elizabeth with Mary – Luke 1: 39-45 • Canticle of Mary –Magnificat – Luke 1:46-55 • Sayings about the Holy Spirit – Luke 12:10-12/ Let the children come to me Luke 18:15-17 • Martha and Mary relieved brother is alive – John 11:1-45 • Answers to prayer – Luke 11:9-13/Parable of the persistent widow Luke 18:1-8 • Women at the tomb - Mark 15:40-41,47;16:1-11 Mt. 27:55-56,61; 28:1-10 Luke 23:49,55-56; 24:1-25

7. “And I dream of our coming together encircled, driven, not only by love but by lust for a working tomorrow… the flights of this journey, mapless, uncertain and necessary as water.”Audre Lorde, “Our Dead Behind Us” Remember? By Alice Walker Remember me? I am the girl With the dark skin Whose shoes are thin I am the girl With rotted teeth I am the dark Rotten-toothed girl with the wounded eye And the melted ear.

8. Dedicated to: Left to Tell author ImmaculeeIibagizahttp://www.lefttotell.com/book/index.php?utm_id=749&gclid=CP7JoYLl-4gCFQNqSgodOAFNrQand Addie Mae Collins and all the little ones like them…. I am the girl Holding their babies Cooking their meals Sweeping their yards Washing their clothes Dark and rotting And wounded, wounded. I would give To the human race Only hope. I am the woman With the blessed dark skin I am the woman With the teeth repaired I am the woman With the healing eye The ear that hears I am the woman: Dark Repaired, healed Listening to you. I would give To the human race Only hope. I am the woman Offering two flowers Whose roots are twin Justice and Hope Let us begin.

9. Pledge: We are a “Community of Communication by Dialogue”. We will deconstruct domination, search for ignored, suppressed and alternative wisdom and reconstruct with the principle of the promotion of true humanity.We are not called to debate, negotiate, persuaded, or coerce. • When I speak my only aim is to give others their best chance to know exactly what I hold and why. If I am trying to convert you to my position, I have lost it. • When I listen, my goal is to understand the other as well as I can. If I argue and refute what is said while listening, I have already lost the argument. • All questions put to the speaker is intended for the best clarification of what the speaker is saying. • We agree from the beginning of our communities’ development that we won’t withdraw from any conversation - no matter how hard it becomes for the listener or speaker or peers engaged. • Understand, if your position is different from mine and I know something that will support your position, I must tell you. Our aim is to live in truth…. Not to win. • Clarification we make in conversation is to be based on the consequences of each interpretation of our own lived experience. Notes from: Bernard Lee, SM 2002 at St Thomas University Miami, FL

10. Ideological Suspicion- - Dance of transformative consciousness raising and systemic analysis -Use common sense to question patriarchal reality -Recognize sociopolitical, economic, cultural, and religious contradictions. - Be aware of exclusive language Historical Reconstruction- -Practice reading like a detective or CSI agent Remember and reintegrate women and other marginalized people into history as agents Theoethical Assessment -Evaluate and proclaim what is healthy and good for a common well being and ethical response -Transform dominating and exploitative words of stone into waters and light of empowerment that become nourishing bread and food that leads to abundant life promised by Jesus Creative Imagination and Liberation -Elaborate with artistic vigor the roles unannounced -Speak the silences and shine light on the faces of the marginalized and forgotten -Amplify the freed characters suppressed in bible stories Four Reading Strategies But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation. Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza. Beacon Press. Boston, MA. . 1992. P..55

11. For Small Faith Communities and their Faith Development using Gospel Narratives:To continue on the journey of small faith group development, learning to confront problems creatively is essential. To solve problems there are methods to create and explore. To help solve the problems resulting from disciples of Jesus not feeling their full humanity or authority graced to them through their baptismal call, this study of the gospel narratives was developed.One of the rules for fighting fair is no name calling. Participants in a conference about leadership listed terms used to label feminists. After twenty years of attack and being called “lesbians, power hungry, emotionally deprived, sexually frustrated, Beijing women, sexually promiscuous, unmarriageable, against God’s plan, castrators, westernized, witches, bitches, women who want to have testicles, elite, one’s with penis envy and femi-Nazi’s”, women and men with the blessing of knowing they are made in the image and likeness of God are becoming prepared to overcome the backlash and move forward to address the courageous call to continue the work of Jesus with the Holy Spirit.Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror. 2002. Betsy Reed Editor. Katha Pollitt Introduction Pg. 27http://www.theinsite.org/justice/justice_now.html“Why I am a Feminist?” By Juanita Wright Potter. P. xvi The Wisdom of Daughters.

12. Definitions • Respiration – n. 1. act or process of respiring; breathing; inhaling and exhaling air 2. the processes by which a living organism or cell takes in oxygen from the air or water, distributes and utilizes it in oxidation and gives off products of oxidation, esp. carbon dioxide 3. an analogous process in anaerobic organisms involving some substance other than free oxygen. • Repair – v. –to put back in good condition after damage, decay, mend, fix, to renew, restore, revive, amend, set right, remedy • Resilience – n. the quality of being resilient; esp. at the ability to bounce or spring back into shape, position b) the ability to recover strength, spirits, quickly; buoyancy This is where deliverance is grown. Nah ist und Schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wachst das Rettende auch. Near And difficult to grasp is God. But where danger lies, Deliverance also grows. Friedrich Holderlin,” Patmos”

13. Journey into JoyTwelve Steps into a Garden Approachto the Resurrection Stories while we Respire, Repair and remember to Resist any turns into Despair • Marigold Corner: Women come to the tomb and angels say don’t be afraid. Matthew 28 • Amaryllis Bulbs: Mary Magdala meets and talks with a gardener. It turns out to be Jesus. Jn. 20 • Picnic Tables: The Apostle to the Apostles, Mary Magdala, tells the other apostles, that Jesus is alive. Jn. 20 • Sand Pile and Dirt Pile: Road to Emmaus- Disciples learn about God’s Word from Jesus on their Journey Lk.24 • Tropicana and Julia Child Rose: At the breaking of the Bread, Jesus’ friends recognize him after walking with him on the Road to Emmaus Lk.24 • Peace Rose: Jesus tells his friends, “Peace be with you.” Jn. 20 • Mrs. Rockfeld’s Memorial that says, “She remains faithful.”: Jesus confirms the faith of Thomas. Jn 20 • Double delight Rose: Jesus makes a delicious grilled fish breakfast for His friends. Jn. 21 • Mr. Lincoln Rose: Jesus gives us the great commission to make disciples throughout the whole world by showing how we love. Mt. 28:19-20 • The Gateway Arch or Beginning Steps into the Garden: Jesus Ascends into Heaven Mk 16 • Mrs. Gamage’s Memorial at the St. Francis Statue: Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to Disciples Acts 1 and 2 • The Fig Tree and Caper Tree: We are reminded of our Baptismal Call to produce good fruit with the grace of the Holy Spirit. The fruits of the Spirit are: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, generosity and self-control. Gal 5:22-23

15. Named female Leaders of the early church found in Romans 16:3-16 • Prisca, 3 (Priscilla) is referred to in two other letters and in the book of Acts • Junia, hailed “foremost among the apostles” Romans 16:7 • Mary, 6 • Tryphaena, 12 • Tryphosa, 12 • Persis (named as friend, beloved )12 • Julia 15 • Olympas 15 • Mother of Rufus, who Paul says is a mother to him too 13 • Sister of Nereus 15 Ten of the twenty eight coworkers of Paul that were named were women in this final chapter of Paul’s letter to Romans. They established Christian faith communities with their hard work (kopaio= Gk means “to work very hard” ) by teaching, evangelism and preaching.

16. Community of Co-Creators on One blue dot (4 pixels on Al Gore’s visual in Inconvenient Truth)

17. “My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9 • Phoebe: Prostatis (leader, president or patron)carried Paul’s letter to the Romans for Paul’s introduction. • Joanna: Luke 8:1-3- patron of Jesus, wife of Chuza, a steward in Herod’s household, travelled with Jesus with Susanna and Mary of Magdala. Their patronage protected and supported the Jesus movement. They were well positioned socially and economically and established patron- client relationships. • Mary, mother of John Mark: Presided over a house church of Hellenistic Jews in Jerusalem and it was at her door that the astonished Peter knocked to announce he was freed from jail by an angel Acts 12:12-17 • Apphia : Leader of a house church in Colossae – Philemon 2 • Nympha of Laodicea: Leader of a house church – Col 1:15 • Lydia Of Thyatira: Leader of a house church on the crossroads near Phillipi - Acts 16:15 • Phoebe of Cenchreae: Leader of a house church – Romans 16:1 • Mary of Magdalene: First Apostle to witness the resurrection John:20

18. Women of the Gospels Bible Study as a Prototype and Continuing Engagement for Small Faith Communities (sfc) This bible study is developed for small faith communities. It is a nine week program with seven weeks of intensive bible study. The study explores methods of deliverance from narratives of women of the gospels who demonstrate respiration, repair and resilience - all proven methods of conflict resolution. Creative conflict resolution teaching methods combining such practices as role play, liturgy, meditation, song, dance, and other forms of artistic mediation is listed in a rubric with reference ideas to gathered members. This rubric is designed by the facilitator of the small faith community. Members of the sfc are expected to facilitate one bible study class. Each bible class will explore a gospel woman from each of the three r categories of practice. All members are expected to have read the stories and answered the reflection questions before class. The facilitator provides assistance as needed or as requested. At least six class members will be necessary for this study method. There are prayer suggestions but this is the choice of the sfc. After an orientation class and the first bible study by the facilitator, there are the student led and centered six sessions and then the last meeting is a celebration with family and friends. A liturgical celebration with a sharing of a meal is suggested but will be determined by the members. Members continue their sfc with a faith response with a detention facility or transitional shelter for women or other outreach. To establish a prayer group with bible study within the walls of the jail or shelter with the women of the prison or shelter makes this study even more relevant.

19. Fire, Wind and Spirit I AM- Respiration – Future starts with breathing - Red • Gabriel visits with Mary – Luke 1:26-38 • Visiting wise friends Elizabeth with Mary – Luke 1: 39-45 • Canticle of Mary –Magnificat – Luke 1:46-55 • Sayings about the Holy Spirit – Luke 12:10-12/ Let the children come to me Luke 18:15-17 • Martha and Mary relieved brother is alive – John 11:1-45 • Answers to prayer – Luke 11:9-13/Parable of the persistent widow Luke 18:1-8 • Women at the tomb - Mark 15:40-41,47;16:1-11 Mt. 27:55-56,61; 28:1-10 Luke 23:49,55-56; 24:1-25

20. Meditations on Revelations of Nature about Fire that connects with each Gospel Narrative of Respiration • Calm before the storm and during the eye of a hurricane and especially after the storm = fear worse than when the storm is present • Camp fire with smoking dried herb twigs on a cool night with friends= warm, inviting, full of comfort • Realization of the presence of the Divine within during breathing exercises when meditation practice is attempted even though there is a feeling of risk involved • Breath of a newborn when nursing on the breast • Heavy sigh after a call from distanced child • Fire storm of a volcanic explosion – melting lava creating new soil for a rich and prosperous future generation • Death needs to bring the prospect of hope – fire needed for pine cones to release their seeds and for habitat to support new growth of a pine forest

21. Reflection Questions for Fire, Wind and Spirit I Am- Respiration- red • How is respiration necessary for life? Give examples found in nature of either aerobic or anaerobic respiration. • When do you anticipate that you will you need the practice of mindful respiration in your future? • How will you know how to respire in comprehensiveness ? • Where do you most need to practice complete respiration? • How come you are more mindful of your breathing and the Breath of God? • What activated your respiration in the past? • What prompts your respiration now? • Who is the one who most helps you to respire? • Who will be the one who most helps you to respire in your future? • Which character in these gospel narrative’s seems most full of the Breath of God to you? • How come you chose this character? How do you relate to them? • Which character most demonstrates a desire for the presence of the third member of the trinity- the advocate, paracleate (John 15:26), fire, wind, breath or spirit of God? How come?

22. Respiration and Gabriel visits with Mary – Luke 1:26-38

23. 1. Respiration and Gabriel visits with Mary – Luke 1:26-38 Six months later, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a young woman named Mary; she was engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. Upon arriving, the angel said to Mary, “Rejoice, highly favored one! God is with you! Blessed are you among women!” Mary was deeply troubled by these words and wondered what the angel’s greeting meant. The angel went on to say to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God. You’ll conceive and bear a son, and give him the name Jesus – “Deliverance!”. His dignity will be great, and he will be called the Only Begotten of God. God will give Jesus the judgment seat of David, his ancestor, to rule over the house of Jacob forever, and reign will never end.” Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have never been with a man?” The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you – hence the offspring to be born will be called the Holy One of God. Know too that Elizabeth, your kinswoman, had conceived a child in her old age; she who was thought to be infertile is now in her sixth month. Nothing is impossible with God.” Mary said, “ I am the servant of God. Lit it be done to me as you say.” With that, the angel left her.

24. 2. Respiration and Visiting Wise Friends: Elizabeth with Mary – Luke 1: 39-45

25. 2. Respiration and Visiting Wise Friends: Elizabeth with Mary – Luke 1: 39-45 Within a few days Mary set out and hurried to the hill country to a town of Judah, where she entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But why am I so favored, that the mother of the Messiah should come to me? The moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who believed that what Our God said to her would be accomplished!”

26. 3. Respiration and the Canticle of Mary –Magnificat – Luke 1:46-55

27. 3. Respiration and the Canticle of Mary –Magnificat – Luke 1:46-55 Mary said: “My soul proclaims your greatness, O God, and my spirit rejoices in you, my Savior. For you have looked with favor upon your lowly servant, and from this day forward all generations will call me blessed. For you, the Almighty, have done great things for me, and holy is your Name. Your mercy reaches from age to age for those who fear you. You have shown strength with your arm, you have scattered the proud in their conceit, you have deposed the mighty from their thrones and raised the lowly to high places. You have filled the hungry with good things, while you have sent the rich away empty. You have come to the aid of Israel your servant, mindful of your mercy- The promise you made to our ancestors- to Sarah and Abraham and their descendants forever.” Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned home.

28. 4. Respiration and Sayings about the Holy Spirit – Luke 12:10-12/ Let the children come to me Luke 18:9-17

29. 4. Respiration and Sayings about the Holy Spirit – Luke 12:10-12/ Let the children come to me Luke 18:9-17 “Those who speak against the Chosen One will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.” Jesus spoke this parable addressed to those who believed in their own self-righteousness while holding everyone else in contempt: “Two people went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: “I fast twice a week. I pay tithes on everything I earn.” The other one, however, kept a distance, not even daring to look up to heaven. In real humility, all the tax collector said was, “O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” Be me, the tax collector went home from the Temple right with God, while the Pharisee didn’t. For those who exalt themselves with be humbled, while those who humble themselves will be exalted.” People even brought their infants forward for Jesus to touch. When the disciples saw this, they scolded the parents. However, Jesus intervened by calling the children to himself. He said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them, for the kindom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

30. 5. Respiration and Martha and Mary relieved brother is alive – John 11:27-29

31. 5. Respiration and Martha and Mary relieved brother is alive – John 11:27-29 Jesus told her, “I am the Resurrection, and I am Life: those who believe in me will live, even if they die; and those who are alive and believe in me will never die. “Do you believe this?” “Yes!” Martha replied. “I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, God’s Begotten, the One who is coming into the world.” When she had said this, Martha went back and called her sister Mary. “The Teacher is here, asking for you,” she whispered. As soon as Mary heard this, she got up and went to him.

32. 6. Respiration and Answers to prayer – Luke 11:9-13/Parable of the Persistent Widow Luke 18:1-8

33. “That’s why I tell you, keep asking you’ll receive; keep looking and you’ll find; keep knocking and the door will be opened to you. For whoever asks, receives; whoever seeks, finds; whoever knocks, is admitted. What parents among you will give a snake to their child when the child asks for a fish, or a scorpion when the child asks for an egg? If you, with all your sins, know how to give your children good things, how much more will our God give the Holy Spirit to those who ask?” Jesus told the disciples a parable on the necessity of praying always and not losing heart: “Once there was a judge in a certain city who feared no one- not even God. A woman in that city who had been widowed kept coming to the judge and saying, “Give me legal protection from my opponent.” For a time the judge refused, but finally the judge thought, “ I care little for God or people, but this woman won’t leave me alone. I’d better give her the protection she seeks, or she’ll keep coming and wear me out!” Jesus said, “Listen to what this corrupt judge is saying. Won’t God then do justice to the chosen who call out day and night? Will God delay long over them? I tell you, god will give them swift justice. But when the Promised One comes, will faith be found anywhere on earth?” 6. Respiration and Answers to prayer – Luke 11:9-13/Parable of the Persistent Widow Luke 18:1-8

34. Respiration and the Women at the Tomb –Mark 15:40-41,47;16:1-11 Mt. 27:55-56,61; 28:1-10 Luke 23:49,55-56; 24:1-25

35. 7. Respiration and the Women at the Tomb –Mark 15:40-41,47;16:1-11 Mt. 27:55-56,61; 28:1-10 Luke 23:49,55-56; 24:1-25 On the first day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, the women came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared. They found the stone rolled back from the tomb; but when they entered the tomb, they didn’t find the body of Jesus. While they were still at a loss over what to think of this, two figures in dazzling garments stood beside them. Terrified, the women bowed to the ground. The two said to them, “Why do you search for the Living One among the dead? Jesus is not here; Christ has risen. Remember what Jesus said to you while still in Galilee- That the Chosen One must be delivered into the hands of sinners and be crucified, and on the third day would rise again.” With this reminder, the words of Jesus came back to them. When they had returned from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and the others. The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them also told the apostles, but the story seemed like nonsense and they refused to believe them.

36. Water I AM -Repair- past- Blue • Samaritan Woman at the Well – Jn 4:1-42 • Syro-phoenician (Gentile and Greek) and by religion a Canaanite Woman and her Daughter – Mk 7:24-30 / Matt 15:21-28 • Bleeding Woman of Twelve Years – Mk 5:25-34 / Lk 8:43-48 /Matt 9:20-22 refer to Lev 15:25 • Daughter who was dead -Jairus’s 12 Year Old Daughter – Mk 5:21-24, 35-43; Lk 8:40-42,49-56; Matt 9:18-19, 23-26 • Woman who stood straight – Lk 13:10-17 • Woman Who Anoints Jesus’ Head – Mark 14:3-9(8a “She has done what she could”) / Matthew 26:6-13 • Mary and the Gardener of Lk 8:1-3; Jn 19:25 and John 20:1-18

37. Meditations on Revelations of Nature about Water that connects with each gospel narrative about Repair 1. Water is the great thirst quencher after swimming laps= osmosis maintaining equilibrium 2. Salt water’s changing of the tide in an estuarial tidal marsh= so discrete yet so powerful that repairs the ocean’s salinity, temperature, power, of reproduction, energy levels, oxygen capacity, and so many more mysteries 3. Sweat on Jesus’ brow in the Garden before his death= isolated and desperate , yet remaining faithful with the renewal of commitment 4. Fluid plug in a developing fetus that prevents drowning in the uterus= what appears foolish is wise= restoration of our beginning state 5. Water percolating through ancient coral limestone to pure state for new life = vertebrae of a healing touch= repairing the purity of water 6. Amniotic fluid’s pressure allowing for a near painless birth= fontal strength which repairs before anything is broken with stretching 7. Water’s power through Incan irrigation canals path ways to allow growth in drought, altitude, coldness to bring a diversified crop of goodness… brings us back to our original blessings found in the Garden

38. Reflection Questions for Water I Am - Repair- Past-blue • How does water repair? Give examples found through natural water systems, cycles and attributes. • When have you done the most repairs? • How have you repaired the most ? • Where have you repaired? • How come you repaired? • What triggered your repairs in the past? • What triggers your repairs now? • Who would you most like to repair now and why? • Who has been the most resistant to your repairs in the past? • Which gospel character demonstrates the most repair? • How come you have chosen this particular gospel character? How do they relate to you? • With which character does Jesus demonstrate the greatest repair? How come?

39. 1. Repair and the Samaritan Woman at the Well – John 4:1-42

40. 1. Repair and the Samaritan Woman at the Well John 4:1-42 When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was attracting and baptizing more disciples than John - though it was really not Jesus baptizing, but his disciples- he left Judea and returned to Galilee. This meant that he had to pass through Samaria. He stopped at Sychar, a town in Samaria, near the tract of land Jacob had given to his son Joseph, and Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus, weary from the journey, came and sat by the well. It was around noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” The disciples had gone of to the town to buy provisions. The Samaritan woman replied, “You are a Jew. How can you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?” since Jews had nothing to do with Samaritans. Jesus answered, “If only you recognized God’s gift, and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink instead, and he would have given you living water. “If you please,” she challenged Jesus, “you don’t have a bucket and this well is deep. Where do you expect to get this “living water’? Surely you don’t pretend to be greater than our ancestors Leah and Rachel and Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it with their descendants and flocks? Jesus replied, “ Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give them will never be thirsty; no, the water I give will become fountains within them, springing up to provide eternal life. The woman said to Jesus, “Give me this water, so that I won’t grow thirsty and have to keep coming all the way her to draw water.”

41. 1. Repair and the Samaritan Woman at the Well – John 4:1-42 Jesus said to her, “Go, call you husband and then come back here.” “I don’t have a husband.” replied the woman. “You’re right – you don’t have a husband!” Jesus exclaimed. “The fact is, you’ve had five, and the man you’re living with now is not your husband. So what you’ve said is quite true.” “I can see you’re a prophet," answered the woman “Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you people claim that Jerusalem is the place where God ought to be worshipped.” Jesus told her, “Believe me, the hour is coming when you'll worship Abba God neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you don’t understand; we worship what we do understand, after all, salvation is from the Jewish people. Yet the hour is coming –and is already here- when real worshipers will worship Abba God in Spirit and Truth. Indeed, it is just such worshipers whom Abba God seeks. God is Spirit, and those who worship God must worship in Spirit and Truth. The woman said to Jesus, “I know that the Messiah –the Anointed One- is coming, and will tell us everything.” Jesus replied, “I who speak to you am the Messiah.” The disciples, returning at this point, were shocked to find Jesus having a private conversation with a woman. But no one dared to ask, “What do you want of him?” or “Why are you talking with her?” The woman then left her water jar and went off into the town. She said to the people, “Come and see someone who told me everything I have ever done! Could this be the Messiah/” At that, everyone set out from town to meet Jesus. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.” But Jesus told them, “ I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” At this, the disciples said to one another, “Do you think someone has brought him something to eat?” Jesus explained to them, “Doing the will of the One who sent me and bringing this work to completion is my food. Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four months more and it will be harvest time’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields-they’re ripe and ready for harvest! Reapers are already collecting their wages; they’re gathering fruit for eternal life. And the sower and reaper will rejoice together. So the saying is true: ‘One person sows; another reaps.’ I have sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the work, and you’ve come upon the fruits of their labor.” Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus on the strength of the woman’s testimony –that “he told me everything I ever did.” The result was that, when these Samaritans came to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them awhile. So Jesus stayed there two days, and through this own spoken word many more came to faith. They told the woman, “No longer does our faith depend on your story. We’ve heard for ourselves, and we know that this really is the savior of the world.”

42. 2. Repair and the Syro-Phoenician (Gentile and Greek) and by religion a Canaanite Woman and her Daughter – Mk 7:24-30 / Matt 15:21-28

43. 2. Syro-Phoenician (Gentile and Greek) and by religion a Canaanite Woman and her Daughter – Mk 7:24-30 / Matt 15:21-28 Jesus left Gennesaret and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. There he went into a certain house and wanted no one to recognize him, but he could not pass unrecognized. A woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She approached Jesus and fell at his feet. The woman, who was Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, begged Jesus to expel the demon from her daughter. He told her, “Let the children of the household satisfy themselves at the table first. It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” She replied, “Yes, Rabbi, but even the dogs under the table eat the family’s scraps.” Then Jesus said to her, “For saying this, you may go home happy; the demon has left your daughter.: When she got home, she found her daughter in bed and the demon gone. Follows with Jesus giving voice to the mute and hearing to the deaf in Mark 7:31-37 with making witness’ proclaim in amazement, “He has done everything well!”

44. 3. Repair and the Bleeding Woman of Twelve Years – Mk 5:25-34 / Lk 8:43-48 /Matt 9:20-22 refer to Lev 15:25

45. Repair and the Bleeding Woman of Twelve Years – Mk 5:25-34 / Lk 8:43-48 /Matt 9:20-22 refer to Lev 15:25 Now there was a woman who had suffered from hemorrhages for twelve years; after long and painful treatment from various doctors, she had spent all she had without getting better – in fact, when was getting worse. She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. “If I can touch even the hem,” she had told herself, ‘I will be well again.” Immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Immediately aware that healing power had gone out from him, Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “who touched my clothes?” The disciples said, “You see how the crowd is pressing you and yet you say, ’Who touched me?’” But Jesus continued to look around to see who had done it. Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at Jesus; feet and told him the whole truth. “My daughter,” Jesus said, “your faith has saved you; go in peace and be free of your affliction.”

46. 4. Repair and the Healing of Jairus’s 12 Year Old Daughter – Mk 5:21-24, 35-43; Lk 8:40-42,49-56; Matt 9:18-19, 23-26

47. 4. Repair to Healing of Jairus 12 Year Old Daughter – Mk 5:21-24, 35-43; Lk 8:40-42,49-56; Matt 9:18-19, 23-26 When Jesus had crossed again to the other shore in the boat, a large crowd gathered, and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials – Jairus by name- came up and seeing Jesus, fell down and pleaded earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is desperately sick. Come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.” Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed, pressing from all sides. …….Then there is a healing the woman who was bleeding for 12 years- (genre of a cucumber dill sandwich technique… intriguing, crunchy yummy, and keeps us alert!)…. While Jesus was still speaking, some people arrive from the house of the synagogue official to say, “Your daughter is dead. Why put the Teacher to any further trouble?” But Jesus overheard the remark and said to the official; “Don’t be afraid. Just believe.” Jesus allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and James’ brother John. They came to the official’s house and Jesus noticed all the commotion with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly. Jesus went in and said to them, “why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep. At. This, they began to ridicule him, and he told everyone to leave.

48. Page Two 4. Repair of Healing of Jairus 12 Year Old Daughter – Mk 5:21-24, 35-43; Lk 8:40-42,49-56; Matt 9:18-19, 23-26 Jesus took the child’s mother and father and his own companions and entered the room where the child lay. Taking her hand, he said to her “Talitha, koum!” which means, “Little girl, get up!” Immediately the girl, who was twelve years old, got up and began to walk about. At this they were overcome with astonishment. Jesus gave the family strict orders not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give the little girl something to eat.

49. 5. Repair and the Woman who stood straight –Lk 13:10-17

50. 5. Repair and the Woman who stood straight – Lk 13:10-17 One Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues. There was a woman there who for eighteen years had a sickness caused by a spirit. She was bent double, quite incapable of standing up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are free of your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began thanking God. The head of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the congregation, “There are six days for working. Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.” Jesus said in reply, “You hypocrites! Which of you doesn’t let your ox or donkey out of the stall on the Sabbath to water it? This daughter of Sarah and Abraham has been in Bondage of the Adversary for eighteen years. Shouldn’t she have been released from her shackles on the Sabbath?” At these words, Jesus’ opponents were humiliated; meanwhile, everyone else rejoiced at the marvels Jesus was accomplishing.”