Stations Journal Journey #38

Dec 23, 2025 

The 14 Stations of the Cross, in fabric appliqué, are now complete. This stage of the Stations journey, 15+ years in the making, is about to change.

Advent also is drawing to a close, or rather, to a transition or transformation. 

In two days we celebrate the birth of the Christ child, Emmanuel, God with us. As I have been living out this time of both the world being pregnant with anticipation and waiting, and my own creative gestation, both are being birthed at the same moment. It could not feel more profound or obvious. In fact, the author of #14’s reflection, has written that “the tomb becomes a womb”. Indeed… and “from there is birthed new life”.

At Christmas we celebrate God with us in a babe, in new life. A Messiah. God’s anointed. Yet God is not only in this babe, named Jesus. God’s Holy Spirit is infused in all material things, all around us. God made manifest. God, touchable and tangible (kind of gives new meaning to giving things at Christmas). 

God has infused this project with Godself. As the artist who said yes, in a brief and breezy moment of acceptance, this ‘idea’ has stayed with me since my now adult children were small. It amazes me that this yes has become my life. My ministry, my anointing.

The art that has transformed from an idea, to writings, to illustrations, to textile is  visible, tangible, touchable, as it is birthed. It is transforming again, to a life in the world, for the world, rather than as my baby. Like one’s own child, I will have to begin letting it go. My dreams have been full of babies lately.

Thank you, God, for your steadfastness. Thank you for showing us a piece of yourself and your very nature in Jesus. Thank you for showing us yourself infused in faithfulness, in persistence, in threads, in art and always finding ways to bring your love alive and visible in the world.

Sister Doreen McGuff has written these words: "Art becomes…sacrament that opens our hearts to the indwelling Spirit of God. The visible makes the invisible present in a palpable way.” God with us.

This is what I trust. May it be so. It IS so.