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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Christi Ortiz

Christi Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist by profession and a poet by passion.  She enjoys trying to put to words to that which is wordless and give voice to the dynamic and wild spiritual journey called life. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Grace. She loves the outdoors and meditating in the early mornings which gives rise to her poetry.

Is it really worth arguing about?

Scholars argue back and forth about what Jesus really said and did. What really happened and what is story? Might I interrupt the argument to say perhaps there is no need for it.

Advent Poem: The Divine Indwelling

The earth still quakes
with the mystery of God’s Theophany when He walked upon her surface

POEM: While the World was Sleeping

Does it strike you as a bit ironic that God made His grand entrance why the rest of the world was sleeping?

Do you believe in Christmas?

The Incarnation, more than any Christian theological concept has continued to baffle me. I am just as much perplexed as awed by the idea of God's marriage to humanity in flesh and blood.  As much as it seems impossible and breaks my head trying to understand, I can't deny that its mystery is one of the most enticing and hope-filled proclamations that I have heard.

Poem: Who are you God?

I am the loved one’s embrace. I am the tear stained face. I am the sunshine in the morn.

Sensing Your Hidden Presence

Stunned a bit by my own blindness I realize I too have the small mind of the disciples.

We are hungry for forgiveness, but how do we get there?

So we can start the process of healing and forgiveness but I think we have to treat ourselves with gentleness. 

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