“The Creator of all things, the Alpha and Omega, the Eternal One, putting on the garb of infancy to enter the world, just like every other human, is a level of vulnerability that astonishes me. His entrance, unlike what we would expect of a King, is not dramatic, but rather common—“Heaven’s King” is “Infant Jesus” given comfort and life at Mary’s bosom, night after night.”
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Momma Theologians Contributor
Kelsi Folsom
Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God’s unconditional love. When she isn’t cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest.
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This Christmas, we will still be releasing:
Christmas Day- Elizabeth Berget’s “Deliverance”
December 26th- Our last Advent Study episode “O Come O Come Emmanuel- Marvel at the Magnitude of the Incarnation”
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