Discover the Compassionate Mother
Within
Sophia is Divine Wisdom. There are many references to her but her
voice of wisdom was silenced by patriarchy in the early years of Christianity
as the Divine feminine was swallowed up by male dominance and logic. As a result the voice of wisdom is
overpowered by the voice of rationale and disembodied logic.
“You of
the whirling wings,
circling, encompassing energy of God:
you quicken the
world in your clasp.
One wing soars in heaven,
one wing
sweeps the earth,
and the third flies all around us.
Praise to Sophia!
Let all the earth
praise her!”
-Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard (10989-1179) also known as Sybyl of the Rhine was a
German writer, composter, philosopher and Christian Mystic at a time when women
were not allowed to move forward in the careers or avocations.
Introducing Wisdom, Sophia
Most of us have grown up in a very
patriarchal society and have been confused about our roles whether we are men
or women. Many men came from families where the mother seemed to be the wisest,
smartest, and practical of the two parent family but because of some invisible
rule that as a child you could not decipher things always went dad’s way. Often
you suffered from lack of enough money for food or school clothes because dad
would squander it away gambling or drinking. As women, sometimes our experience
was watching our mother’s serve our fathers just because of some sort of
invisible hierarchy. It was easy to fall into social hypnosis where children of
the 50’s, 60’s and even in the 70’s where men were viewed as better than women.
Of course, there is plenty going on in our world around us that still echoes a
long overrated patriarchy.
Discovering the Compassionate Mother
Within is about finding the ancient voice of inner wisdom that comes from a
divine feminine energy of Sophia, the wisdom of God, which is portrayed as
female. Often because there are too many mixed messages from our past about who
we are and who we are supposed to be that is so hard to discover our own inner
voice. By using meditation and reflection to sit with Sophia, the wisdom of God
we are able to extrapolate into a sacred space within us where a whole host of
positive empowering energy exists that has long been buried.
Discovering wisdom is the first step
to letting go of old lies that no longer serve us.
For instance, why do you believe you
are not good enough? How does that serve you to malinger in a lie that keeps
you from enjoying the best part of your life, this day you have. You are tied
to some invisible or maybe even visible loyalty that you heard from a sibling,
parent, grandparent or teacher or something you created because no one gave you
a beautiful perspective of you.
Imagine that Sophia hears you say, “I
am just not good enough.” As a Compassionate Mother she might say any of the
following things to you.
“Really, well child, I am clearly
blind then. Cause you are clearly good enough for me. My wisdom would tell you
to get off the couch and go take some water to a homeless person and experience
what being good enough is.”
Or, she might say, “quit feeling
sorry for yourself and get out of the house and go play.”
Or, maybe she will say, “tell me all
about those times in your life that you have not felt good enough and I will
listen with intent to every hurt that has made you feel that way. But when you
are all done, I want you to go out and play. You can come back and share with
me again and again whenever those old hurts box you around like a boxing bag.
But one day, you will be able to box back with my nurturance and care.
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