Honoring Our Elders

Last weekend, while we are still in the darkest time of the year, some of our elder women that have initiated at the Water Bowl came to my home to do a three day visioning ceremony for humanity and the planet.

They prepared for a year to be able to hold space for us with an expansiveness of unconditional love that could bring healing to the greatest challenges we have. As they settled in to begin the three day meditation, I filled the ancient, womb-shaped bowl with water and called in the spirits to hold them as they held us.

Sometime this weekend, they may have invited your spirit to enter into the sacred circle with them. Perhaps at some moment you felt completely loved simply as you are. Perhaps some part of you found greater contentment and acceptance of yourself as the Divine being that you are.

If you did, you might offer a heart-felt prayer of thanks to these living spiritual grandmothers, as I did when I closed the ceremony.

As they left the house, and I settled into the energy humming in my home, I was stuck by the subtle yet profound power I experienced as the grandmothers opened to the vast potential of their love as the Sacred Feminine.

I couldn't help but wonder what kind of world we would experience, if all women found that place within them that can hold the best and the worst of what we are in the cradle of their love, without judgment or conditions.

I couldn't help but wonder what our relationships would be like, if such capacity for holding became the sacred work of more of our elders.

I would like to find out...and so, it is the dream I am holding for all of us that share in this call.

—Reverend Misa