Giving Voice
During the time when I was writing the first Giving Voice blog I had a dream. In this dream I see a vibrant, healing green stream that runs through women from head to toe. I am told that women need to find and recognize it in themselves, so that it can flow out into life. For the green expresses what I understand as a woman's sacred relationship to life and to the divine. This blog is about how we live this in our lives and our work in community.
I loved seeing the blog post and reading the replies. Your messages are so essential for us and especially right now. They help dispel our feelings of being so terribly alone and afraid and help us to summon the courage to continue with our own unique ways of serving life." D.T.
Once there was a seed…
April 18, 2016
We sit in circle… six women who are homeless and living in shelters, a colleague and myself. After a silent meditation, I offer a writing exercise that begins with the words, Once there was a seed…. A stillness settles in the room as the women concentrate on their writing. Ten minutes later, I invite the
Oh Holy Night, Every Night
December 27, 2015
Many years ago, when a dear friend of mine became ill, I took care of her one night. I seemed to lie awake all night, until the early hours of the morning when I fell asleep. I had so much doubt, so much worry. But as I was waking up in the morning, I heard
The Way of Women
November 16, 2015
I returned from the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City last month. Over 9000 people from 80 countries attended. Walking through the vast complex where hundreds of workshops and gatherings were taking place, I remembered a dream shared by a friend nearly a decade ago. In her dream she heard these
Wisdom Surrounds Us
August 28, 2015
Always, life calls to us, speaks to us, if we can hear. Life, this living organism, has its own wisdom. I have heard in women’s dreams that there is a way we can be part of that wisdom, directly affecting the life around us. And one of the ways that women can help life is
Caring for the Sacred
July 7, 2015
How do we care for the sacred in life? Many years ago, when I was experiencing certain difficulties, I had a dream. In the dream, a male singer tells me, “I hear that you are not in love with life. You have only one life, you know. You need to love life. Even the mistakes.
A Story of Longing
March 2, 2015
There is magic in a story. Some stories can show us that the divine exists – that there are forces that make things happen. I share this story about longing. On a cold, foggy morning I went to a large shelter for the homeless, where we were on the third session of a new program.
Wherever I Stand on the Earth
December 18, 2014
At this season of the year, when we celebrate the point of the darkest time and the time of the returning light, I share about women and the earth. In Fall, I was invited to a gathering envisioned by Diane Longboat, a Mohawk leader from the Six Nations area. I had an experience there, during
Why We Share
October 29, 2014
We share, because we are one. These are the words I heard as I awoke one morning. I had recently returned from a gathering of twenty women who came together to share their dreams, visions, and prayers, for the earth. The Native American women offered ceremonies each day, in the morning, afternoon and evening. We
Waiting and Holding
September 15, 2014
I learned a lesson from the salvia plant in my garden. I was sitting on a stump with my granddaughter, beside this lovely bush with tiny purple flowers, watching a bee going from flower to flower. It puzzled me because there is no obvious pollen. We watched for a while, and then I instinctively held