The Annunciation… a graphic print… first in a series created 2010… KCB

My personal journey with Mary of Bethlehem began in a moment when I realized that my call to ordained ministry made us companions. It was the 70’s when I received the call. I did not know any female pastors. It was a new thing. There was prejudice and skepticism, but the God who had called me, also led me, taught me, and made a way for me. Just as God had done for Mary when she was called to the new thing God was doing. Between 2003 and 2007 I completed a watercolor and two mixed media pieces that were expressions of my journey with Mary. These were previously exhibited. The graphic prints on this blog are new, part of the new media work I have focused on recently. As I have worked with creating these Mary images I have experienced them as returning to the time before Mary was the great lady and the precious icon she became. In these works she is the young girl, the one called and gifted with Grace. There is also a reference to what she will become in the early church: the burning bush a title she carries lightly. She is active, moving, dancing, dreaming, the picture of a youthful “yes” to God, to life and to the future.  I will post these images over the weeks of Advent.