From Kat Arman, Cuban-American author and theologian – author of Abuelita Faith & Sacred Belonging and Liturgies for Resisting Empire
In Deuteronomy, after Moses dies, God takes him to a hidden place and buries him. I don’t think we sit with that image often enough. Like in Genesis, when God sews clothes for Adam and Eve.
These are the portraits of God we need in a world that convinces us God is only a thunderous ruler or a distant king; a world that insists that those with power—especially men—don’t sew, or tend, or handle a body with tenderness.
Empire can keep its stoic, domineering tyrant-god.
Give me the seamstress God—the one who bends low to stitch together clothing.
The one who kneels in the dirt, digs a grave, and prepares a beloved body for burial.
Give me the embodied God who weeps, who comforts, who labors, who nurses.
This is the God I’m here for, the intimate and tender one.
Peace Be With You. – Paul
Mayfair Heights United Methodist Church 
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