This is intended to be an ongoing discussion of the many, many wise women that not only came before us, but those we "travel with" today. As I age, both women known personally and known by both the written word and other's oral traditions becomes increasingly significant to me.
There is an old saying that you "can never go home again". With all due respect, I disagree. In order to "come home", many of us did go apart. Some came back. Some never came back while others come home in spirit.
I live in another state, but have a new respect and honor for the women in my family. In researching, reading, studying and applying the concepts found about (Christian) women over time, my understanding of women both in my family of origin and before them had been transformed. Strength and Weakness is rarely defined within the context of both time/culture and situation/obligations. A woman who appears weak to us today, when exploring "their world", a completely different conclusion may appear. Such was the case as I have journeyed through both my genetic DNA and my Spiritual (Christian) DNA.
I hope you choose to join me.
The journey was/is exciting. New paradyms continue to break forth as I pray, ponder, listen and write. A journey that began in a desperate attempt to find "strong DNA" that would assure me I could fight some hereditary or genetically prone disorders, has become a delightful search. The search that resulted in my hypothesis being proved. Somehow, down deep, it appeared I came from "a long line of strong women". At the time, subjective feelings fought that idea. That theory, however, in the final analysis (thuss far) was validated and expanded. To get to that validation, I had to go far away from the family information I had and lived. I had to look to women of faith that went back to the grandmother of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
So, as I write my blurb on where I was, emotionally, physically and spiritually, join me in logging your journey. Where are you today in relationship to your family of origin? What woundedness dots your/their personal history? What absolutes do you believe about the women in your family? I invite you to privately journal your history, whether healthy or unhealthy.
Let the journey continue. . . . .
There is an old saying that you "can never go home again". With all due respect, I disagree. In order to "come home", many of us did go apart. Some came back. Some never came back while others come home in spirit.
I live in another state, but have a new respect and honor for the women in my family. In researching, reading, studying and applying the concepts found about (Christian) women over time, my understanding of women both in my family of origin and before them had been transformed. Strength and Weakness is rarely defined within the context of both time/culture and situation/obligations. A woman who appears weak to us today, when exploring "their world", a completely different conclusion may appear. Such was the case as I have journeyed through both my genetic DNA and my Spiritual (Christian) DNA.
I hope you choose to join me.
The journey was/is exciting. New paradyms continue to break forth as I pray, ponder, listen and write. A journey that began in a desperate attempt to find "strong DNA" that would assure me I could fight some hereditary or genetically prone disorders, has become a delightful search. The search that resulted in my hypothesis being proved. Somehow, down deep, it appeared I came from "a long line of strong women". At the time, subjective feelings fought that idea. That theory, however, in the final analysis (thuss far) was validated and expanded. To get to that validation, I had to go far away from the family information I had and lived. I had to look to women of faith that went back to the grandmother of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
So, as I write my blurb on where I was, emotionally, physically and spiritually, join me in logging your journey. Where are you today in relationship to your family of origin? What woundedness dots your/their personal history? What absolutes do you believe about the women in your family? I invite you to privately journal your history, whether healthy or unhealthy.
Let the journey continue. . . . .
No comments:
Post a Comment