May Affirmation: Hope blossoms as I celebrate growth and new life.
This is my favorite time of the year, when new life struggles up through the ground and reminds us that there is hope even in the midst of seeming darkness. I would encourage you to take some time during these busy springtime days and go within. Find your center and discover what seeds are waiting to be reborn in your heart and soul. You are a beautiful lily waiting to blossom. Seek the Light of the sun. Soak in the nourishing rain. And prepare to become your highest and best self.
As we approach Mother’s Day, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the deeper meaning of the Sacred Feminine in our lives. If we each were created in the Divine image, then the Sacred Feminine dwells within us. Godde is both masculine and feminine, and neither, since the Source of All Being is beyond the polarities of gender. And yet our human stereotypes pervade our culture. For centuries God has been interpreted as masculine. But what if Godde were feminine? What difference would it make?
Often we could say that we create Godde in our image, as well as the other way around. So if we envision Godde as including the Sacred Feminine, we are creating a paradigm that uplifts and recognizes the feminine as an integral part of human and divine reality. For thousands of years the Mother Goddess was the centerpiece of much of humanity’s culture. She gave us birth, she nurtured us and she cradled us once more in death. The evidence is in our language. The Latin mater translates as both ‘matter’ and ‘mother.’ So the earth is literally as well as symbolically our mother,
It is profoundly tragic that as we have discounted and disempowered the feminine energy in our culture, we have done the same to our Mother Earth. Our Mother is dying and to save her we must find our feminine power once again, bringing honor and respect to our home. As we celebrate this most beautiful season, with the flowers blooming and the trees budding and the dandelions popping up through the green grass, let’s find a way, even a small way, to say “I LOVE YOU” to our Divine Mother. I encourage you this Mother’s Day to choose something that will make a difference. For me, I have been deeply affected by recent stories in the news of the junk, particularly plastics, in our oceans and even the Great Lakes. It takes 500 years for a plastic bottle to decompose. I’m making an effort to recycle as much plastic as I can. Yes, it’s a small thing, but it’s a way that I can make a small difference and demonstrate to Mother Earth that I love her and care for her. I invite you to join me in saying “I LOVE YOU” in your own way to our Mother Earth this Mother’s Day.
Remember – “You may call this thought by whatever fancy words you wish – psychology, theology, sociology, or philosophy – but you must think of Mother Earth as a living being. Think of your fellow men and women as holy people who were put here by the Great Spirit. Think of being related of all things!” (Ed McGaa from Mother Earth Spirituality)
Eternal and Loving God, there is so much that we do not, cannot, understand. So much about our world seemingly makes no sense. Lift us above our narrow vision and show us the broader vistas of peace and order that you see. Help us to believe in and hold fast to the hope in our hearts even when a different and terrible reality threatens to invade. Remind us that one act of kindness, one word of peace can create a chain reaction of love and understanding. If we feel trapped by circumstances, we are limited only by our lack of clarity and vision. You hold the key to the door, so we ask for that open door and the strength to cross the threshold into a new future.
