Every journey begins with the first step, and so a new life, a new
beginning also has a starting point and a destination. For women here
and now, this is to reclaim our birthright as powerful, beautiful,
compassionate, wonderful loving beings living on purpose, rather than
by default.
Buried deep inside many women lies a restless,
unsettled feeling as though we have been snatched away from our true
course, a hollow anxiety that we dare not express out loud, an
underlying urgency that propels us into fear and stress.
Pulled
and swayed by the ebb and flow of the oceans, by the rise of the sap in
springtime and by the demands of our fluctuating hormones, we have
learned to go out into the world and take a stand, immersed in the
busyness of human 'doing' rather than human 'being,' while hiding,
denying, disowning and dishonouring the depths of who we really are in
essence.
We continue day in, day out, toiling in the frantic pace
of modern life, hoping that things will get better; that if we work
hard enough and put enough effort in, then eventually we will be able
to rest, to come home to who we really are.
Through the turmoil
of the last century, at least in the Western world, women have won the
battle of recognition, acceptance and toleration, and been allowed
input into politics and the running of society. But what we have failed
to recognise is the cost to us as feminine beings. The tide has swept
us away into becoming imitation men. For too long we have been hiding
who we really are beneath layers of armour of our own making - an
armour consisting of us emulating men, dressing like them, using their
aggressive language and working their professions to try and prove that
we are not only as good as them, but in many cases better.
The
problem is as we deprive our man of his male function, he feels less
needed and therefore less masculine; as we women assume masculine
burdens we take on male characteristics to fit the job. Thus deprived
of femininity and gentleness as our new male responsibility adds
stress, strain and worry to our lives, our serenity vanishes and
eventually our families suffer. Does any of this sound familiar?
And
perhaps now is the time to admit it. It is time for us to grow up
spiritually. As women we have the power to change the world in ways we
have not even thought of yet.
It is time for a re-birthing; it is
time for us to re-parent ourselves. It is a time to conceive again, to
engender, to connect with the fullness of who we really are, to grow,
nourish, give birth to and nurture a new way of being, a new way of
womanhood that is dynamic and progressive, taking this beautiful planet
and us to where we want to
be. Women as the givers of life are the ones to do it. We have to show the way.
We
cannot fully express who we are if we are not in balance. When we put
ourselves in harmony with the eternal laws of life, we thus put the
world back in harmony. And as the creators of life, it is up to us to
bring about this growth, knowing that in our wake is a myriad of others
who will be influenced by us. And because we are the mothers of men!
