The Essential Nature of Women

My meditation this week has been about strengthening my connection to spirit, assisting myself in knowing that I am always surrounded by the divine, and recognizing at all times that I am an extension of the feminine aspect of creation, thereby indelibly connected to all that is! How I feel when I am living this reality versus how I feel when I am lost in fear and disconnection are light years apart. My prayers and meditations have been focused on helping me to stay connected to source even during trying times.

It’s a painful feeling, the feeling of being disconnected, held outside of the arms of love. Feeling alone and frightened, wondering what is to become of oneself, how I will fare on my own. Thinking I am without help or guidance can feel like a very dark place. Feeling like I don’t know enough, can’t do enough, don’t understand enough, am not good enough … I think we’ve all had these thoughts and feelings. They are, to say the least, unpleasant. And for the first few moments of meditation calling these feelings into presence may also be unpleasant, indeed painful. But in this practice, as we allow our whole self to be present in welcoming and honoring these painful feelings while holding the light of love present as well, the painfulness begins to dissolve. Sometimes more slowly than others, sometimes miraculously swiftly.

As I sat in meditation, images of the women in my life began to come into my awareness. With their images was the awareness of the love and kindness that their presence brings to me. I saw the collective spirit of these women, as well as those who support me from beyond the physical realm, and I felt the essential flow of something uniquely feminine. My spirit was showing me that it is through women, and through my own womanhood, that I will always know and will always find my connection to the divine.

My senses came into rapture with this experience of the nature of women. How like water, I thought, this flowing essence that surrounds, comforts and heals. This quality of women flows soothingly into those tight and forgotten places within my being in the most gentle of ways, like a prayer or a whisper. I reflected on how my life has been enhanced since I’ve joined in the practice of honoring the divine feminine, the water, and the women. I became mindful of how much I’ve learned about what it means to be one, and by knowing myself as a woman, what a difference I can make in someone else’s life.

It’s this quality, knowing myself as a woman, as a being who carries the essential nature of the feminine that allows me to do what I do, to do what only I can do. It is through this quality of the divine that flows through me that I can make any difference at all.