Mother's Day is coming up and I find it a perfect opportunity to speak out on all women coming together in the unity of love, peace and a shared experience that changes our lives forever.
With all the talk of religious wars, racial wars, gender wars, I just wanted to try to solve these conflicts by pointing out what we all have in common. Now I realize that this commentary will NOT stop all these silly, dangerous wars but maybe, if it gets some people thinking, those people will change the way they view the world and the way they treat others and then those people they treat better will treat others better and so on. It only takes one person to get the ball rolling, doesn't it?
Anyway, back to the subject at hand-Mother's Day! I realize that there are different religions and different races and so on but one thing I have noticed in ALL religions and in ALL races is that ALL people KNOW that motherhood is a precious, miraculous experience. We women are creatures of magic-whether we are black or white (or whatever color), Christian or Pagan (or whatever religion), American or East Asian (or whatever nationality/culture/race). We are walking miracles!
Now the Pagans know (or should know) what I am talking about but, for those who are not Pagan, let me explain. We women are NOT dirty, not unclean, not to be avoided. Motherhood is NOT a curse nor is it a burden (although our children make it seem like it at times!). It is wonderful and a totally natural and magical part of life. Think about it. We women are capable of creating life inside of us...a living breathing, thinking human soul growing inside of us....and we are able to not only create this human being but are capable of sustaining that very life (by nursing it with milk that our own bodies create)after we bring it out into the world...forever changing that world (hopefully for the better).
The process of motherhood is a miraculous and awe-inspiring experience. Womanhood is a miraculous and awe-inspiring experience. Although men are walking miracles in themselves (for reasons that I will get into on Father's Day), can they say that they can "bleed to life" every month (meaning that, as long as a woman is bleeding every month, she is also fertile and fully capable of bringing life into this world)? Can they say that they can create, carry and sustain life with their bodies? No. That does not mean that they are any less special or any less important than we women are. (think about the biology of it. We need men in order to bring life into this world just as much as men need us in order to) All it means is that we women are, from birth, a part of a sorority, a club, that is exclusive and that binds all us women together in sisterhood no matter who we are or where we come from.
So, having spoken my mind (and rambled on, I'm sure! Sorry.), I hope that this causes you to reconsider your ideas about womanhood and motherhood IF they include shame and fear and celebrate your ideas IF they celebrate the miracle that you are, have always been and will always be.
This is Winterhawk and these are just some Things to Ponder.
