Women’s circles are powerful vehicles for creation and, also, release. While watching an episode of Better Things (a fabulous, irreverent television program), I thought of times when I’ve been part of a group of women who supported each other in a common cause. Lest I be thought of as sexist, I’m sure this could happen with any gathering of people, but it seems not as many men are open to the type of emotional honesty which is requisite for powerful purpose. The show which caused me to think on these things involved five women who gathered on Father’s Day to release pent-up resentment towards their ex-husbands. After writing and reading their pain, they burned the papers in a fire pit, held hands, and howled at the moon. I felt empowered just watching them! During the summer of 2020, while we were all in some form of quarantine, the people of Eureka Springs went outside and howled at 7 p.m. each evening. It felt really good. I hope some men were doing this, but the voices I could hear were women’s. I know the man in my house wouldn’t howl, insisting he couldn’t make his voice do that. Cheers to everyone who has the courage to express their true feelings, whatever those may be!
“Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of love and loving. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears. Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed, or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.
Is this the Son of God? Could He create such instability and call it Son? He Who is changeless shares His attributes with His creation. All the images His Son appears to make have no effect on what he is. They blow across his mind like wind-swept leaves that form a patterning an instant, break apart to group again, and scamper off. Or like mirages seen above a desert, rising from the dust.”
A Course in Miracles W-186.8:3–9:6
“The chief difficulty in conveying the teachings of divine Science accurately to human thought lies in this, that like all other languages, English is inadequate to the expression of spiritual conceptions and propositions, because one is obliged to use material terms in dealing with spiritual ideas. The elucidation of Christian Science lies in its spiritual sense, and this sense must be gained by its disciples in order to grasp the meaning of this Science. Out of this condition grew the prophecy concerning the Christian apostles, ‘They shall speak with new tongues.’”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 349: 13-22
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