Each of you must show great respect for your mother and father (Leviticus 19:3; NLT).
“O, my Mother and my Father” –
These few words admit some light:
They offer me a way ahead
At last, through my unending night.
Here, discarded in the dark,
I’ve found a pearl which God has blessed.
It comforts and emboldens me,
This precious truth so long suppressed
By patriarchies far and wide –
That God is male and female: One!
Yahweh is all, and all beyond,
Within us all, to their chagrin.
And so, in darkness, I rejoice,
Balanced, equal, strong and free,
Learning, each day, about my God:
The Holy One, who dwells in me!
I am God, and not man; the Holy One within thee (Hosea 11:9; BST).
References
I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness – secret riches (Isaiah 45:3; NLT).
The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had and bought it (Matthew 13:45-6; CSB).
The LORD our God, the LORD is one (Deuteronomy 6:4; NIV).
God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis 1:27; NLT).
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28; NIV).