Ann Johnson > Quotes

“YHWH summons us to a sabbath table.
Water and wine,
bread and salt,
light and love await us there.
Come, my companions,
sorrow is for another day,
for YHWH has spoken.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“YHWH, your way is a mystery of loving kindness.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“I watched them wrap him tenderly,
entwining his body in clean linen,
swaddled as I once swaddled his infant frame,
enwrapped as he daily wrapped himself in his shawl of prayer,
from heaven to earth...from earth to heaven...
born and born and born again,
light of God wrapped in flickering mystery.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“Let us spend ourselves lifting up the lives of others.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“My sacrifice, O God,
is my spirit, bent,
my heart, broken.
My heart crushed and grieving, O God,
you will not refuse.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“Womb-tides pull and ebb
with the pulse of the universe
and we survive.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition

“Love is the fulfillment of the Law.”
― Ann Johnson, Miryam of Judah: Witness in Truth and Tradition