#btw the sticker pictured here is from artofmarza dot co m!

[a-queer-seminarian]

woke early to spend some quiet time with my mother

ID (also in alt text): an open notebook is propped up in front of a small personal altar dedicated to Mary the Mother of Jesus. It has a teal cloth as its base, with a rosary, candle, labyrinth and Mary statue, some geodes and other stones, an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and more. There's also a sticker by artofmarza with a simple image of Mary from the shoulders up, smiling softly; text under her reads "at least mom loves me."

The second image is a close up of the open notebook, dated July 18, 7am. A prayer is scrawled in purple ink:

Mother, Untier of knots, Mary,

My spirit is all knotted up like some garment i've left crumpled in a closet corner for too long.

i am not gentle with myself.

Will you help me? will you take my spirit, unfold and smooth it out, get to work on these tangles

with the same gentleness you had combing out your little boy's hair?

And will you who believed in your son before he believed in himself believe in me?

#queer catholics #sacred spaces #personal altar #altar #mother mary #mary untier of knots #< the title for Mary i've been most connected to of late <3 #btw the sticker pictured here is from artofmarza dot co m! #i should post all three stickers i got from them #log #summer 2023 #prayer