{"id":327,"date":"2011-03-19T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-03-19T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:55:18","slug":"her-body-broken-for-many-saturday-lent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/her-body-broken-for-many-saturday-lent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Body Broken for Many: Saturday, Lent 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we approach the end of this week of reflections on the woman of Judges 19, today’s reading invites us to consider doorways and dreams . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

In Anne Michele Tapp\u2019s article \u201cVirgin Daughter Sacrifice\u201d in the book Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women\u2019s Lives in the Hebrew Bible<\/em>, she <\/em>notes that in this story and that of Jephthah\u2019s daughter, doorways serve as a boundary between the \u201csafety\u201d of the home and the danger that lies beyond.<\/p>\n

Only the male head of the household can pass through the doorway safely, and the well-being of his guests depends primarily on him. In these stories, the host protects the men in his home. The women are allowed, or pushed, through the doorway to deal by themselves with the dangers that await immediately outside. The doorway does not belong to the woman, yet it determines her fate.<\/p>\n

The symbolism of the doorway reminded me of a letter I received from a friend in which she described a dream about a doorway of her own. My friend, who still deals with the wounds of childhood abuse, wrote,<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a dream that I was building a door. It was a beautiful wooden door. It was partially open as I was working on it and the frame. Friends came by to help but it was my door\u2014I was in charge and competent enough to build a door. And it wasn\u2019t a \u201ckeeping out\u201d door, but it was a \u201cgoing through\u201d door. I think that\u2019s just where I am in my life. I need to claim me, my doors, and my ability to make them with the intention of going through them.<\/em><\/p>\n

My friend\u2019s dream and her life speak to me of claiming our doorways, our passages\u2014turning them from other-owned openings to death into self-owned, self-fashioned passages to life, passages through which others may find safe space. Honest doorways that open into ourselves, into God.<\/p>\n

Questions for reflection<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What kind of door are you creating in your own life right now? Is it a “keeping out” door, a “going through” door, a door of some other name? What are you allowing or inviting into your life, and what amount of intention are you bringing to this? Is there a threshold you need to cross, a passage you feel drawn to enter?<\/p>\n

From Sacred Journeys<\/strong> \u00a9 Jan L. Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we approach the end of this week of reflections on the woman of Judges 19, today’s reading invites us to consider doorways and dreams . . . In Anne Michele Tapp\u2019s article \u201cVirgin Daughter Sacrifice\u201d in the book Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women\u2019s Lives in the Hebrew Bible, she notes that in this story and that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent","category-sacred-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p190Xv-5h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}