04/02/2026
The Holy Spirit was never neutral.
It was feminine.
In Hebrew, the word is ruach. Feminine.
In Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke, it remains feminine.
Breath.
Wind.
Life itself.
This was not symbolic. The feminine was embedded in the language. In how people understood God - at the time of Christ.
Early Christians knew this.
In Syriac, one of the oldest Christian traditions, the word for Spirit, ܪܘܚܐ (ruha), is feminine. Entire communities spoke of the Holy Spirit this way.
Even more directly, in the Gospel of the Hebrews, Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as “my mother.”
So what changed?
How did we come to embrace Father and Son, and forget the Mother?
Language shifted. And when language shifts, perception follows. But meaning does not disappear. It gets buried.
“Holy” means set apart, active, devoted to and with God.
The Holy Spirit is the living movement of God.
The force that creates.
That sustains.
That transforms.
A maternal presence.
Alive and moving.
Gentle as breath.
Powerful as creation itself.
The Holy Spirit is not separate from God. It is God in motion.
And maybe what we’ve been missing is that we’ve been speaking of God without Her.
Mother, I see you.
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☀️ A prayer
Mother, will of God, I ask you
open the eyes of those who cannot yet see,
but already carry you in their hearts.
Separate us from blindness. You who are gentle and immeasurably powerful, banish what is evil.
Guide us.
Gather us.
Strengthen us.
Hold us in a mother’s love, fierce and unyielding.
Lead us forward.
This dark age must end.
Goodness is ready for abundance to all.
Let this reality be the one in which we all rise.
What must fall will fall.
What is true will remain.
In God we trust.
In goodness we become.
One God we believe.
Amen.
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