Tag: Women

Dear Men

Dear Men..

We miss you.
Deeply.

When women gather together in circles..
we tell stories of how much we long for you.

Crave you.
Pray for you to rise and meet us here.
We mourn your missing presence.

In our childhoods.
In the homes we’ve built without you.
In our beds.

We hold hands and beg God to set you free from whatever keeps you from standing at our sides.

Right here.

Here In intimacy.
In integrity.
In wholeness.
In freedom.

The places where you are caught in dishonesty..
shame..
fear..
addiction..
we grieve and rage over.

We see your pain and we see your power.
We miss you.
We love you.
We can’t wait for you to come home.

For the men who have..
thank you so much.
Please call your brothers..
start men’s circles..
show them the manuals.

Tell them of what you gave up.
Of your brokenness and acceptance.
Of what it truly means to take up the mantle of protector.

Please.

There aren’t enough fathers..
resources and leaders for men to sit at the feet of.

The women have tried.
We can’t do it.

The restoration must come from within the Masculine.
The Feminine cannot mother grown men into wholeness.

We cannot strap men to our backs and walk.

We tried.
We bow out.
Not gracefully.

But in mournful acceptance nonetheless.
And we will wait for you to burst free from the shackles patriarchy has placed on you.

We pray.
We pray.
We pray.

For the Great Remembrance.

~Shade Ashani

Artist: Dorina Costras

Woman

  • When choosing a woman who works, you have to accept that she can’t handle the house.

*If you have chosen a housewife who can take care of you and fully manage your household, you have to accept that she is not earning money.

  • If you choose an obedient woman, you must accept that she depends on you and you must ensure her life.
  • If you decide to be with a strong woman, you have to accept that she is tough and she has her own opinion.
  • If you choose a beautiful woman, then you will have to accept big expenses.
  • If you decide to be with a successful woman, you must understand that she has character and has her own goals and ambitions.

There are no such things as perfect. Everyone has their own riddle, which makes us unique.

Stop and think 😉…

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Geography of a woman

The Geography of a Woman as she ages: 🤣🥰
Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa . Half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally Beautiful!
Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe. Well developed and open to trade, especially for someone of real value.
Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain. Very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.
Between 36 and 40, a woman is like Greece. Gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit.
Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain. With a glorious and all conquering past.
Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel. Has been through war, doesn’t make the same mistakes twice, and takes care of business .
Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada. Self-preserving, but open to meeting new people.
After 70, she becomes Tibet.
Wildly beautiful, with a mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages.
An adventurous spirit and a thirst for spiritual knowledge.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN
Between 1 and 100, a man is like North Korea and Russia.
Ruled by a pair of nuts!

To the women; Words to live by

WHAT IF?

What if you’re never ready?
What if, this is as close to being ready that you’ll ever actually be?
What if, the biggest regret you have when you look back on your life, is that you wasted time waiting, waiting to be better, when you were already so very much enough?
What if, the last thought you have when your life comes to an end, is that you didn’t do enough living whilst you were alive?
My friend, this is it.
This is your life, right here, right now.
And let me tell you something, somebody somewhere went to sleep last night assuming tomorrow would be a new day.
And it wasn’t.
Today is the day.
Every day is the day.
Life waits for no one.
Seize the moment, seize the day.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Watch the sunset.
Eat the delicious cake.
Put your bare feet on the cool grass.
Be alive.
Be ALIVE.
Put your hand on your chest and feel that heartbeat pulsing through your body.
That’s all you need to be ready.
That is truly all the purpose you ever really need.
You, my friend, are alive.
So live.

Donna Ashworth:
From ‘To The Women: words to live by’
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Art by the glorious Demelsa Haughton Illustration

Wise Woman speaks to “ over loading “

Then I stopped wearing tight clothes, changed chairs, bought orthopedic belts, did yoga, pilates, went to chiropractors and doctors of all kinds, but the pain continued, weight, burden, discomfort that didn’t let me sleep and sometimes it even had a hard time breathing…

What about then? Wat did u do ?

A wise woman … told me it was because I over load for too long.

How did she know about this?

Just looking at my tense and compressed spine, just feeling with the touch of her old and swollen hands my naked skin she knew…

What about then? What did she tell you?

I said… So much pressures carried over the years, so much pain and resentment that you lost count, carrying the weight of your own world and that of others…

And then I exhaled every breath I had been holding for over two decades…

Did she tell you how to heal?

She held my hands in hers, in those old lady hands, made me lower my hands, release my shoulders, lifted my chin and leaned behind me.

Your lips shaved my ear and softly said to me:

“Not everything is your fault”
“Not everything is your responsibility”
“You can’t do it all”
“You can’t solve everything”
“You don’t have to accept everything”

And my eyes started to shed thick tears like broken crystals, there was a moment where I thought I would cry blood, from so much pain I was feeling.

Little by little my shoulders returned to their place, my neck became soft and lifted again, my back crept up like it hadn’t happened in years and I heard my bones emit a scary crunch…

The weight of the world had come off my shoulders, the weight of the past had finally come down to the floor and was going to be used as a stepping stone…

Has she told you anything else?

His wolf eyes looked at me expectantly and said:

There are pains that carry in the heart and there is no way to remove them easily, learn to let go of the past or you will end up drowning your future… and also understand that unforgiveness hurts more than the one who cannot forgive.
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Love and Light,
Healing World

God Comes to WOMEN

THIS HIT ME HARD.

Have you ever noticed how in the scriptures men are always going up into the mountains to commune with the Lord?

Yet in the scriptures we hardly ever

hear of women going to the mountains.

But we know why — right?

Because the women were too busy

keeping life going;

they couldn’t abandon babies,

meals,

homes,

fires,

gardens,

and a thousand responsibilities to make the climb into the mountains!

I was talking to a friend the other day,

saying that as modern woman

I feel like I’m never “free” enough

from my responsibilities,

never in a quiet enough space

I want with God.

Her response floored me,

“That is why God comes to women.

Men have to climb the mountain to meet God, but God comes to women where ever they are.”

I have been pondering on her words for weeks and have searched my scriptures

to see that what she said is true.

God does in deed come to women

where they are,

when they are doing their ordinary,

everyday work.

He meets them at the wells

where they draw water for their families,

in their homes,

in their kitchens,

in their gardens.

He comes to them

as they sit beside sickbeds,

as they give birth,

care for the elderly,

and perform necessary mourning and burial rites.

Even at the empty tomb,

Mary was the first to witness Christ’s resurrection,

She was there because she was doing the womanly chore of properly preparing Christ’s body for burial.

In these seemingly mundane

and ordinary tasks,

these women of the scriptures found themselves face to face with divinity.

So if — like me — you ever start to bemoan the fact that you don’t have as much time to spend in the mountains with God as you would like. Remember, God comes to women. He knows where we are and the burdens we carry. He sees us, and if we open our eyes and our hearts we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and in the most ordinary things.

He lives. And he’s using a time such as this to speak to women around the world.

-Heather F

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She

“She is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the fox. The birds which tell us secrets belong to her. She is the voice that says, “This way, this way”.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés,

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Photo: Smudging by Elena Ray