We Are All Masters....

Because of the way this whole journey seems to work, I don't often have the opportunity to gather women's stories anymore. I'm busy doing administrative, fund raising and strategic things. But yesterday I took the time to sit with a woman and hear her story. Every time I do this I am brought home to the simplicity and power of the vision of the GCW. Every time I sit with a woman and witness her Wisdom I am moved to tears (literally, always) by the beauty of the feminine principle. I am reminded of how damn lucky I am to have been born in this body, a female body, in all its mercurial perfection.

I often listen for the one moment in the story that feels like it is the reason I am gathering her story and not another woman. There is always (at least) one statement or paragraph that is that 'ah-hah' for me, the reminder that is exactly what I need in this very moment. So, Sharon, who is a wise and powerful soul, who has lived several lives as a midwife and mother, who could mother the entire planet without breaking a sweat, was speaking about the things we take on in this world that aren't really ours. In this breathtaking gentle-like-water voice she said, "Truly, all we have to remember is that we are all masters. Anything that takes us away from that is not ours, truly...it's not ours and we can simply let it go!"

I am on a path. You are on a path. There are times in our lives when we are faced with things that remind us of our human-ness; of the fact that we have hearts that get broken; times when our trust and faith get challenged, perhaps even shattered temporarily. Is this not a gift? Isn't this a moment that allows us to test the resolve of our knowing that we are all masters. That we can be completely heartbroken and know that we are still fully alive, still on our path. With Sharon's gentle permission, I stepped back on my path. With all the pain I had been feeling lately as I work to redefine an old relationship, I stepped back on my path and took a deep breath.

Thank you, thank you Sharon. We women have so much work to do, far more work than we're already doing. We'll only get there if we remember we are all masters...we are all beauty incarnate. We are all essential gorgeous beings. We can be broken hearted, we can grieve deeper than the earth's core. We can feel rage powerful enough to incinerate a redwood. We can do all this and realize that this is simply proof that we're on our path; alive and feeling, responding to a world that is hurting, grieving, raging, pulsating and thriving while she spins. In sisterhood we will remember this. In sisterhood we will set to work cultivating a planet in which all life is sacred. Aho.