GOD*Mother Forum Exchange - Recent Posts https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/ One Feminine Space on the inside, many unique perspectives en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:05:38 +0000 wpForo 60 Solstice Dec 2019 https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/checkin-forum/solstice-dec-2019/#post-20 Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:51:28 +0000 The days leading up to this Solstice and these 2019 holidays have been intense for me and very full. Sometimes it seems that I cannot remember the simplest of words and ideas because there is so much to be aware of and I can't sort it all out quickly. My edges of wounding and judgment have been very visible within me; yet I find myself speaking calmly, often with a smile while old uncomfortable habits are staring me in the face.

Barbara Hubbard's words, "Our crisis is a birth" often come to me as though I'm feeling the birth, uncertain of whether I'm the mother or the baby.

Last night I remembered that love is the answer. It's so cliche, but there was the transition: I was filled with the problems, and someone helped me remember that I was loved. I shifted from problem-focused to love-focused.

How many times have I learned this? How many times must I remember in order to build a better pathway through my neural networks?

As I write, I'm filled with a re-commitment not to forget again. And I feel some new strength that this is so: I am loved. I am love. I love.

Realizing as I feel into this forum, the GOD*Mother Field of caring is real...

With immense gratitude, Jeanie

]]> CJ https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/checkin-forum/solstice-dec-2019/#post-20 RE: Light. A prayer for the human family https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-18 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:42:18 +0000

From: Richard Rohr's message today, by Mary Mrozowski:

Set aside some quiet time alone to try this practice. Begin by becoming aware of how your body feels. Notice any tension or pain. After a few moments of silence, read the following intention aloud prayerfully:

Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I welcome everything that comes to me in this moment
because I know it is for my healing.
I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions,
persons, situations and conditions.

I let go of my desire for security.
I let go of my desire for affection.
I let go of my desire for control.

I let go of my desire to change any
situation, condition,
person, or myself.

I open to the love and presence of God and
the healing action and grace within.

Holding this intention lightly, identify a hurt or an offense, something or someone who has hurt you or let you down recently or in the past.

  • Feel the pain of the offense the way you first felt it, or are feeling it in this moment, and notice the hurt in your body. Why is this important? Because if you move it to your mind, you will go back to dualistic thinking and judgments: good guy/bad guy, win/lose, either removed link
     
  • Feel the pain so you don’t create the win/lose scenario. Identify yourself with the suffering side of life; how much it hurt to hurt; how abandoned you felt to be abandoned.
     
  • Once you can move to that place and know how much it hurts to hurt, you could not possibly want that experience for anybody else.
     
  • This might take a few minutes. Welcome the experience, and it can move you to the Great Compassion. Don’t fight it. Don’t split and blame. Welcome the grief and anger in all of its heaviness. Now it will become a great teacher.
     
  • If you can do this you will see that it is welcoming the pain and letting go of all of your oppositional energy that actually frees you from it! Who would have thought? It is our resistance to things as they are that causes most of our unhappiness—at least I know it is for me.
 
 

Mary Mrozowski, “The Welcoming Prayer.” More information about the history and practice of this prayer is available at <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #41b2ba;" href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl=" removed link ;source=gmail&ust=1566130704037000&usg=AFQjCNE3XFZPrEf_nHjZ1Dy0lxN2_koXcg"> removed link contemplativeoutreach.org/welcoming-prayer.

]]> Bonnie https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-18 RE: I am grateful for... https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/i-am-grateful-for-2/#post-17 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:25:21 +0000 I am grateful for my innate ability to feel God's Love expressed in multi-dimensional forms and ways in my daily life. I experience the quickening of aliveness quite easily... even in the midst of challenges. This is a divine gift.

]]> Bonnie https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/i-am-grateful-for-2/#post-17 I am grateful for... https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/i-am-grateful-for-2/#post-16 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:20:43 +0000 I appreciate the women in my life with whom I share a deep resonance and who are available to me, even if we are not in the same location, for providing a genuine, safe and non-judgmental space of listening and love when I feel need of such.

And my joy is to provide the same for those women in their time of need. At this time on Earth we need whatever 'pods' of people we can hold hands with- physically or virtually- and remind one another of our true selves, our purpose and our goodness.

]]> CJ https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/i-am-grateful-for-2/#post-16 Can one person influence the whole? https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/can-one-person-influence-the-whole/#post-4 Wed, 14 Aug 2019 02:47:30 +0000 It seems hutzpah to even suggest that one person can make a difference. Yet, most spiritual paths agree that seeing ourselves as a separate individuals is not the deepest truth. When we know we are One Consciousness, it almost seems reasonable that we might affect the One Consciousness that we are.

]]> CJ https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/godmotheralerts/can-one-person-influence-the-whole/#post-4 RE: Light. A prayer for the human family https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-3 Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:19:27 +0000 Thank you for this, Doris!

I find myself going through some experience of 'victimhood,' seemingly a relic of my childhood, from the simple parental domination of my choices... nothing really terrible on the part of my parents, but a repression in me, nonetheless. My experience is of reaching a place of collapse and tears, and sometimes of feeling frozen, 'stunned,' just completely stopped from any experience whatsoever.

From this poem, noticing how much light children generally have automatically, realizing how even well-intentioned parents can dominate their children's natural light, my own experience is rising to the surface, where I am doing my best to meet it from a GODMothering place. I am beginning to feed myself light and strength, to welcome these 'normal' wounds into that place as well.

The name of this poem... 'prayer for the human family'... seems particularly relevant.

Much love and gratitude, Jeanie

]]> CJ https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-3 Light. A prayer for the human family https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-2 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 03:33:05 +0000 Dear brothers and sisters:

My life is my light;

Please do not steal my light;

Do not extinguish my light;

This is not your right.

 

Instead, bring your candle to the table

Which you have made of your human needs and humble confessions.

We will sit down and break bread together in peace.

We will speak together as family, and we will listen minutely to each other.

Patiently.

 

But before we do, I will gladly give you the light you seek

If I have it and you do not.

It burns for you and for me and for us all.

Tomorrow I may come seeking from you

And I trust you will do the same.

]]> CJ https://godmotherproject.com/godmotherforum/practices/light-a-prayer-for-the-human-family/#post-2