Light will flow from your hollowing (Christin Lore Weber)

Some of you I will hollow out.

I will make you a cave.

I will carve you so deep the stars will shine in your darkness.

You will be a bowl.

You will be the cup in the rock collecting rain.

I will hollow you out with knives.

I will not do this to make you clean.

I will not do this to make you pure.

You are clean already.

You are pure already.

I will do this because the world needs the hollowness of you.

I will do this for the space that you will be.

I will do this because you must be large.

A passage.

People will find their way through you.

A bowl.

People will eat from you

and their hunger will not weaken them to death.

A cup to catch the sacred rain.

My daughter, do not cry.

Do not be afraid.

Nothing you need will be lost.

I am shaping you.

I am making you ready.

Light will flow from your hollowing.

You will be filled with light.

Your bones will shine.

The round open center of you will be radiant.

I will call you Brilliant One.

I will call you Daughter Who is Wide.

I will call you transformed.

--Christin Lore Weber,

Prayer – Mother Wisdom Speaks

in Circle of Mysteries: The Women’s Rosary Book

Image source:  Eternal Woman, sandstone sculpture, Indonesia, https://www.novica.com/p/handcrafted-indonesian-stone-sculpture/115601/