Streams of My Mother's Love

My inner state is cracking open with hunger for aspects of the Feminine Divine.

I grew up dutifully accepting the masculine nature of God, copying translations that use masculine pronouns to refer to the Hebrew term for Elohim, along with the somewhat hierarchical views those translations carried with them about men in places of spiritual power. But now, every time I refer to God and go to write the word “he” with a capital “H,” I’m finding it harder and harder to pen. If you’ve noticed in my writing, I tend to find other ways around it, avoiding terms of gender altogether and selecting words such The Divine instead, which seem to encompass a broader scope of God, one that involves more variety and mystery.

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Resources:

• Paulette Meier’s chant Streams of Love: https://paulettemeier.bandcamp.com/track/streams-of-love
• A children’s book entitled Mother God by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky (see my page on Parenting for more children’s resources)
• Books about the feminine that have made their way into my hands lately include: Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K. Evans; The Mystics Would Like a Word by Shannon K. Evans; Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr

• Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus, translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas-Klotz (the Lord’s Prayer excerpt)
• The Welcoming Prayer (see Emotional Overwhelm and the Welcoming Prayer)