Greetings, beloved listeners, your host, Tim here.

The following is more of a devotional podcast, so I thought it might be helpful to have a few introductions before we get started.

The first voice you'll hear is Dr. Christina Cleveland, who joins us, I think, for the third time on Nomad.

This time she's bringing a wonderful reflection based around the idea of the divine womb.

If you want more from Christina, you can find her work at Christina Cleveland.com.

Following Christina is beloved nomad co-host Anna Robinson, who will be leading us in a meditation

inspired by Christina's reflection.

And you can, of course, find Anna's work at

Livelight, dwell deep.org. And then finally, you'll hear Jay Hume, who is joining us again,

I think, for the third time, this time sharing the poem Mother Julian from his latest

collection, The Vanishing Song. And you can find Jay at jayhume.com. And all this is beautifully woven together with the music of John Bilbra,

known musically as Wilderthorn.

I've been getting to know John a bit over the last couple of years,

and I'm a big fan of his music,

so I'm really pleased that he's been able to contribute to this podcast.

If you want more from John, you can find him at wildathorn.com. All the links,

of course, will be in the show notes. I really hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did,

and I hope you all have a really peaceful Christmas. We'll be back in the new year with more

interviews and probably one or two more episodes like this as well, I'd imagine. But for now,

I leave you in the capable and creative and inspiring hands of days with my nieces and nephew, who I don't get to see as often as I would like because they live in another state.

But it was wonderful spitting time with them, and they are ages one, three, and five.

So you can probably imagine how much energy and chaos and joy and screaming and

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