Thursday, January 22, 2009
I will breathe deep and lean on God's Spirit.
We have some special Work to do for ourselves and for our children.
We must re-learn/re-know who we are.
We come from a long line of women who fed their children by Faith.
How could we have forgotten that?
We were supposed to walk out all of our days as Faithful souls.
When did we stop knowing that?
First this pain hit, then that one. This person and that person fed us some bad images of ourselves. And we accepted them. We got confused. We were hurting and started looking for ways out of the hurt. We twisted our minds and our hearts into unnatural states so that we could fit ourselves into unnatural places. Somewhere along the line we started thinking we were disconnected from our Life Source. And we’ve been struggling ever since.
Where will we find the power to change things?
How much longer do we have to look for our power?
How much longer until we find this new powerful Self?
We used to know, instinctively, how to raise children up to their path to their High Places.
Something in us keeps whispering fiercely that we still do. Our Spirit memory tells us that the only power that has traveled intact throughout our history is our spiritual power—our connection to God. The same God who created every thing there is. Well, Hallelujah! That ought to be enough. Shouldn't that be enough?
(Re-Inventing Your MotherSpace: Creating A Good and Blessed Future For Our Children, Copyright 2008 Esther Davis-Thompson)
Love & Light,
Esther
We must re-learn/re-know who we are.
We come from a long line of women who fed their children by Faith.
How could we have forgotten that?
We were supposed to walk out all of our days as Faithful souls.
When did we stop knowing that?
First this pain hit, then that one. This person and that person fed us some bad images of ourselves. And we accepted them. We got confused. We were hurting and started looking for ways out of the hurt. We twisted our minds and our hearts into unnatural states so that we could fit ourselves into unnatural places. Somewhere along the line we started thinking we were disconnected from our Life Source. And we’ve been struggling ever since.
Where will we find the power to change things?
How much longer do we have to look for our power?
How much longer until we find this new powerful Self?
We used to know, instinctively, how to raise children up to their path to their High Places.
Something in us keeps whispering fiercely that we still do. Our Spirit memory tells us that the only power that has traveled intact throughout our history is our spiritual power—our connection to God. The same God who created every thing there is. Well, Hallelujah! That ought to be enough. Shouldn't that be enough?
(Re-Inventing Your MotherSpace: Creating A Good and Blessed Future For Our Children, Copyright 2008 Esther Davis-Thompson)
Love & Light,
Esther
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- Esther Davis-Thompson
- I'm the mother of 10 children, 6 sons and 4 daughters. I'm also the author of 3 books that I hope will inspire women: From Trouble to High Places, Re-Inventing Your MotherSpace, and Raising Up Queens
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