For as long as I can remember, my family had a dedication to Mary. There was a beautiful statue of her on my parent’s dresser. My grandmother was Mary. My mom is Carol Ann Mary. I’m Ann Mary. A miracle statue of Mary was brought to our church when I was a young child and while praying I felt her presence in my heart in a way that was so profoundly loving it brought tears to my eyes. As part of a school project we made rosaries, and my grandma liked to tell people that she would discover me beneath the covers at night praying the rosary.
My mom’s Jewish friends knew Mary was a good Jewish Mother! My mom’s catholic friends prayed to her for “intercession.” I felt her as a loving and nurturing presence. Since that time I have come to understand how Divine feminine has been embodied in many different forms in many different ideologies, nonetheless, it was always the tender, loving, side of God working to nurture itself in human hearts.
As I grew into the spiritual teacher that I am I have continued to love all beings who embodied the Divine in any form – beyond religion, ideology, or belief. I love nature, and animals, for the very same reason. I don’t really talk about Mary much although she’s in my heart. So it was surprising to me when a dear friend gave me a little statue of Mary this year, with the message that he felt I shared her compassion for humanity.
I knew there was more to this gift than a statue, so I went home, held the humble statue to my heart and thanked Mary for her support. I asked her to continue to make the Divine light within me strong. I was unprepared for what happened next.
Heat started flooding through the statue into my heart. I felt as if I would burst with a love so nurturing, so profound, and so expansive, that my body could not contain it. I burst into tears and sobbed my heart out. I went zipping through time and remembered a forgotten memory of myself as an infant in my crib crying and crying and crying with no one else around, except Mary. I saw her standing there in spirit next to me. As an infant I was wailing and telepathically begging her, “Don’t let me forget! Don’t let me forget!” I didn’t want to lose my memory of the truth of our being. I saw in this vision how she had telepathically promised to walk each step with me. I knew, beyond intellectual knowing, viscerally, how I had never been without her nurturing presence.
The experience changed me. It deepened me in ways I can barely put into words. It reminded me tangibly how loved, protected, nurtured, we are even in the depths our unthinkably difficult lessons. I remember, tangibly, a little more clearly who we all are – beyond intellect, experientially, in my heart.
Here are a few ways to embrace the love of the Divine feminine this week…
1. As for her nurturing
Most of us learned to think of God as a man. Although most of us have come to understand the Creator as more of a presence, we still hold on to those old ideas of the masculine God.
Imagine for a moment, God was feminine. What form would she take? A beautiful maiden? A nurturing mother? Mary? A goddess? Green rolling hills and verdant trees? Ask yourself… if God were to take the form of a woman, to me, what would she look like? Trust the first image that comes up.
This is your symbol for divine feminine – the nurturing, compassionate, aspect of the Divine
2. Talk to your Divine Mother… & come as you are.
Just as a child would bring all their problems to a loving a mother, we can bring all our challenges and problems to our Divine Mother. Just as a child knows a good human mother will never judge, and can therefore come exactly as they are, we can approach our divine mother without regard to any superficial standard of perfection.
Take time this week to shut your eyes and pour your heart out to the Divine feminine. Ask her to help nurture your dreams, your faith, and your divinity. Ask her to help solve your problems. She cares about you at every level. She is, after all, the nurturing side of the Creator.
3. Share Compassion
Think of one person you really don’t like. How can you think about them more compassionately? The divine feminine will help you, and you’ll feel that love within you.
How can you be more compassionate to yourself? Try this week 🙂
May you feel the loving, tender Presence of the Divine feminine this week, and be infinitely blessed by her sweetness.
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