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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Thank you for sharing @Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay

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Stephanie Raffelock's avatar

“Does a woman, a writer, an artist or a creator of any kind need to suffer to create meaningful art?” This is the question that jumped out at me. All beings suffer –and often it’s our suffering that alerts us to the need for personal change. Suffering can be a doorway into what needs our attention. Suffering can morph, it can texture our hearts and grow our sense of compassion.

Like you, Prajna, my first experiences with the nature of God was exposure to all that was masculine; and as a female I was supposed to “know my place,” and my place certainly wasn’t a seat at the table. It was only in my fifties that I began to embrace what I’d always known, but had been afraid to speak: Women are free and sovereign souls, baptized in the blood of the feminine cycle and purified in the heart of a divine mother who heals and inspires. To that end, I pray to a Mother/Father God; allow myself to be taught and held by the forest and rushing waters; and learn the essence of growing old with grace from the Grandmother Oaks.

The vision that calls me is that of the sacred crone, the enchanted old woman, who know that the trees hold our stories until we are ready to tell them. I have both suffered and celebrated to get here and no experience, no person and no thing was ever wasted in forming who I have become and am still becoming.

Sending you love and appreciation for the good work you do in the world.

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