Kim, congratulations. The great things about things being divinely apportioned as they are with you, is that you grow into the talents that "Mama spirit" has already given you, but that you are just now feeling comfortable enough to both follow and assert. Your writing here is contemplative and involving, gentle and perceptive. I feel it is coming from your heart, but not just out of sincerity... rather a conviction born in conquered self-doubt and trust in spirit. We don't have to be warriors to do this in the hoary, melodramatic sense, just human meeting who we are at spirit deep in our core and speaking from that. The rest will be the adventure and the life's work.
As a man, I can appreciate and I have a really good feeling about your divine draw to writing from your heart, for the woman in you, and for women everywhere. It will help balance the energies of a world deeply in need of a sacred and spiritual feminine that elevates discourse, love, and the creative "fuse that lights the flower". .
In terms of my interest in how people learn spiritually and learn to act and trust in the world. This is the paragraph that jumped out at me: "The new opportunity took seven months to develop, and it required a lot of patience as I waited. I didn’t know if or when a new season would finally arrive. I worked on the novel early in the morning, but when 9:00 a.m. arrived, I had to switch gears and start work. Mornings were rich with energy and vitality that I wanted to pour into creativity, but every morning except Saturday, I had to sign into a job that drained all that energy. I waited, and I prayed."
You trusted, you prayed, and you welcomed the opportunity into your heart and your life decisions. How can the Father Three and the Mother One be anything other than gladdened by your faith!
I love the reframing of conquering self doubt, which is definitely one way to express what has happened these last five years, into something more gentle, a relationship with a deeper part of ourselves. Yes! I was able to pray for a woman at church yesterday who is going through a very difficult season of divorce, and this was the essence of my prayer. That she would know and trust the deepest parts of herself. How else can we move forward with assurance?
I am also curious how men relate to the sacred feminine, if any have experienced healing through this way of praying. I sense that certain types of brokenness and addiction could be healed if men could let a divine feminine Presence offer wisdom and comfort. I fear that there are too many barriers in our culture, because we see a man going to a mother for comfort as weakness. But this may be the very thing they need for true healing. So, they are doomed to persist in brokenness because of misconceptions absorbed since birth that it is shameful. Have you been able to challenge those assumptions?
Kim, congratulations. The great things about things being divinely apportioned as they are with you, is that you grow into the talents that "Mama spirit" has already given you, but that you are just now feeling comfortable enough to both follow and assert. Your writing here is contemplative and involving, gentle and perceptive. I feel it is coming from your heart, but not just out of sincerity... rather a conviction born in conquered self-doubt and trust in spirit. We don't have to be warriors to do this in the hoary, melodramatic sense, just human meeting who we are at spirit deep in our core and speaking from that. The rest will be the adventure and the life's work.
As a man, I can appreciate and I have a really good feeling about your divine draw to writing from your heart, for the woman in you, and for women everywhere. It will help balance the energies of a world deeply in need of a sacred and spiritual feminine that elevates discourse, love, and the creative "fuse that lights the flower". .
In terms of my interest in how people learn spiritually and learn to act and trust in the world. This is the paragraph that jumped out at me: "The new opportunity took seven months to develop, and it required a lot of patience as I waited. I didn’t know if or when a new season would finally arrive. I worked on the novel early in the morning, but when 9:00 a.m. arrived, I had to switch gears and start work. Mornings were rich with energy and vitality that I wanted to pour into creativity, but every morning except Saturday, I had to sign into a job that drained all that energy. I waited, and I prayed."
You trusted, you prayed, and you welcomed the opportunity into your heart and your life decisions. How can the Father Three and the Mother One be anything other than gladdened by your faith!
I love the reframing of conquering self doubt, which is definitely one way to express what has happened these last five years, into something more gentle, a relationship with a deeper part of ourselves. Yes! I was able to pray for a woman at church yesterday who is going through a very difficult season of divorce, and this was the essence of my prayer. That she would know and trust the deepest parts of herself. How else can we move forward with assurance?
I am also curious how men relate to the sacred feminine, if any have experienced healing through this way of praying. I sense that certain types of brokenness and addiction could be healed if men could let a divine feminine Presence offer wisdom and comfort. I fear that there are too many barriers in our culture, because we see a man going to a mother for comfort as weakness. But this may be the very thing they need for true healing. So, they are doomed to persist in brokenness because of misconceptions absorbed since birth that it is shameful. Have you been able to challenge those assumptions?