Our Nurturing Nature
This Sunday we will celebrate Mother’s Day by honoring our mother figures- those in our lives that who have loved us and nurtured our growth. Few of us had ‘perfect mother’ relationships.
For those who have become Mothers, the reality of the experience often sheds light on the impossibility of perfection. We do our best, and often run head first into our own limits and weaknesses. We do well to learn from our mistakes.
Fortunately, we can always access the nurturing, loving feminine energy within us; offering her healing balm to our own heart and enabling compassion for our own Mother.
Regardless of our gender identity or parental status, we all innately possess aspects of both feminine and masculine energies. While most of us were socialized to express one over the other, we are healthiest when these energies are balanced within us. Our modern world has long bent toward the expression of the masculine energies. Yet, we can all benefit from developing a stronger connection with the more nurturing feminine qualities.
The Divine Feminine is the feminine aspect of divine power that connects and binds all things together through the power of love. This energy expresses in us as intuition, compassion, nurturing, creativity and sensuality. The focus of the Divine Feminine is inward - on our inner world and ways of being. In contrast, the masculine energy is very action-based, outwardly focused with an emphasis on doing rather than being.
Rev. Eric Butterworth offers the following insight:
In Genesis we read, “And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...’
and God created man in his own image, male and female God created them.”
Thus humans, created in the image of God, must have the essence of both male-female within them. Love is essentially a feminine attribute, and wisdom is a masculine attribute.
When God said, “It is not good that man should be alone...” it means that it is not good for wisdom to act alone. We need also the wisdom to believe the heart and to balance and say and do everything with love and compassion.
Mother’s Day is a good time to herald the importance of the divine feminine... the need to explore and harness our inner depths. One is simply not qualified for life in modern times without a sense of the transcendent, the free flow of understanding love, and the wisdom to believe the heart.
Fortunately, we can always access the nurturing, loving feminine energy within us; offering her healing balm to our own heart and enabling compassion for our own Mother.
Regardless of our gender identity or parental status, we all innately possess aspects of both feminine and masculine energies. While most of us were socialized to express one over the other, we are healthiest when these energies are balanced within us. Our modern world has long bent toward the expression of the masculine energies. Yet, we can all benefit from developing a stronger connection with the more nurturing feminine qualities.
The Divine Feminine is the feminine aspect of divine power that connects and binds all things together through the power of love. This energy expresses in us as intuition, compassion, nurturing, creativity and sensuality. The focus of the Divine Feminine is inward - on our inner world and ways of being. In contrast, the masculine energy is very action-based, outwardly focused with an emphasis on doing rather than being.
Rev. Eric Butterworth offers the following insight:
In Genesis we read, “And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...’
and God created man in his own image, male and female God created them.”
Thus humans, created in the image of God, must have the essence of both male-female within them. Love is essentially a feminine attribute, and wisdom is a masculine attribute.
When God said, “It is not good that man should be alone...” it means that it is not good for wisdom to act alone. We need also the wisdom to believe the heart and to balance and say and do everything with love and compassion.
Mother’s Day is a good time to herald the importance of the divine feminine... the need to explore and harness our inner depths. One is simply not qualified for life in modern times without a sense of the transcendent, the free flow of understanding love, and the wisdom to believe the heart.
Join us Sunday at 10am to continue this exploration.
Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash
Sources Cited: Butterworth, Eric. "The Wisdom To Believe the
Heart." Eric Butterworth Speaks. TruthUnity.net, 11 May 1975.
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