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.
An Undiscovered Landscape
August 8, 2014
I am deeply familiar with the beautiful side of devotion. What has been unfamiliar to me is the fierce side. One night, I experienced this other side of devotion in a dream. In th dream, an indigenous woman called me by phone, although she was also somehow physically present. She was more fierce than anything
There is a Way
June 24, 2014
In a dream I ask,“How can humanity endure the suffering that is taking place in the world? A teacher tells me, “There is a way, I believe, to relate to the inner – this is the way.” Is this not the feminine? To turn to the inner, which allows us to hold the outer? I
The Water of Grace
April 4, 2014
One day I felt depleted and weary. Like many women, I wear many hats – in the home, out in work, with a need also for that quiet space before the sun rises, before the household awakens, to be in prayer and silence. But I realized that day when I felt so empty, that I had
Let It Be
March 8, 2014
The story of a woman runs deep like an underground river. Sometimes we catch a glimpse of it. Other times, it runs so deep that it lies forgotten – its sacredness nearly lost to memory. But what I have seen in sitting with women in circles, especially women at risk of homelessness, is that these
The Return of Knowledge
February 5, 2014
I have been reflecting on what it means for a woman to live her sacred power. For that is what life calls out for us to bring forth and to live. Maybe we are afraid of bringing this knowing conscious because of a prior era when such knowledge was suppressed. How I have come to
Holding Fast
December 22, 2013
We sat in a circle again, with women at risk of homelessness. It was not easy to listen to the women that day. Sometimes all we can do is listen. And inwardly hold the women in a loving way. One young woman, striving to free herself from a complex family, was telling about her losses. I
To Have and to Hold
November 25, 2013
A friend wrote to me of a woman’s love song to the earth. It touched my heart because I know it is true. It is a deep listening to the earth’s breath, the earth’s sorrow, and the earth’s prayer. Recently I had the opportunity to listen to three generations of wisdom on a panel: Joanna Macy,
Caring for Life
October 7, 2013
I have been thinking about how a woman can hold life in her heart. A few weeks ago at the daytime center for homeless women, I arranged the chairs in a circle, lit a candle, and waited for the arrival of the women and my colleague. The first to arrive was the daughter of one
Returning Home
September 13, 2013
Over time, through dreams and images, I began to understand how a woman’s life is connected to the whole. In our Western culture we are conditioned to feel separate and alone. This deep conditioning interferes with a woman’s natural capacity to live her potential. Not in the way of achievement, but in a different way.