What will you be?

Orignally posted on FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/oVjDiBD6dBjad7fB/

I had beautiful women leaders visit me today. They showed me how they, in their human selves, changed the world we live in.

My spirit team came in after with a simple question to ponder: What do you wish to be during this time? How will you effect change.

"Will you be angry?"

I have wore the flames that anger brings & owe my gratitude for being forged in the fire more than once. It is no longer mine to hold & I shall pass the torch to light another's.

"Will you be sad?"

I have plunged into tidal waves, sunk to the sea's bottom, & survived storms. I have been the hurricane & the morning tide. It is no longer mine to traverse.

"Will you be loud?"

I have been the siren with sharp piercing words. I have screamed agony, pain, anger. I have had my time, let those needing a voice be heard.

"Will you stand in the sidelines & do nothing then?"

I have been the passive one, both paralyzed by fear & apathetic from being overwhelmed. I see them & I know their stance well but, no. I can no longer sit with them in silence.

"Than what is it that you wish to be?"

I wondered, thinking of the strong women of past & present. Those well known women stepped forward again but this time they stepped to the side revealing hundreds of thousands of women. Women who are nameless in history but, they left a legacy for us. A hidden current of feminine strength and I am in awe of each & every one of them.

How do I choose, I wondered.

"Why do you feel the need to choose? For you are all of them. You are fully connected to each story, each pain, & each victory. You can hear them, see them, feel them. You carry them deep within yourself & call them forward in session. Be the bridge, my dear. Bring the weak their strength, bring the quiet their voice, cut the chains of the repressed, heal hidden wounds, offer compassion & grace, be the teacher & the student.

Above all, own your spot in that long line of women. For you are deserving & your role is to show others how to find theirs."