A Time of Initiation

Have you noticed how we are no longer debating whether global warming is/is not going to happen (it's here is the quiet consensus) but whether we humans will make it through the multitude of changes and challenges, or not?  Books on " 2012" abound and prophecies of civilizations no more, are being used to support both the doomsday predictions of the changes and by those who conclude we are entering the next golden age.  So what really do we know about what is going down?

Knowing often brings humans a sense of comfort because knowing offers us a sense of control, and control is what we have all been taught grants not only safety, but power. Yet, what has power when change and challenges are not only out of our control, but overwhelming in their nature and scope as well?

As Einstein offered, insanity is continuing to choose responses that created a problem in the first place, and expecting the problem to change...not!  Meeting the challenges in our lives offers an invitation, an initiation really, for choices and power different than we have been choosing.....choices made differently with our divine and infinite knowledge and power as human beings.

Initiation means "to begin" and is the perfect word for reminding ourselves to begin to bring our infinite and divine knowledge and power to our challenges.  Our physical minds and hands alone cannot meet the changes and challenges life is bringing us in spades these days.  Alone we never are if we initiate engaging our infinite power and knowledge for what challenges us, and what challenges us offers us the beauty, satisfaction, and legacy of our infinite, divine, creativity as human beings.

The Mother's Prayer

Motherhood was once honored as a sacred calling, the nurturing of a child into an adult considered of critical value to the entire community. The sacredness of motherhood was believed to have the active support of the sacred, ancient wisdom believing the prayers offered by a mother the only prayers God was bound to honor.

Whether we believe in the prayers of a mother being more powerful or not, we can honor "Mother" by honoring ourselves as daughters of the mother we all have in common... Mother Earth. When we honor ourselves as daughters and sons of Mother Earth, all life that receives Her nurturance, Her shelter, Her sustenance, becomes our relatives.  And the Earth Mother's sacred prayer for Her children's harmony, happiness, and peace,  is a sacred prayer we are now being called upon to honor as human beings.