Mother as Refuge

You follow the footprints of the Beloved across manifold spiritual landscapes.  You catch the same ancient, spicy aroma of love in Judaism that you have tasted in Islam. Your attraction to the lush sensuality of Hinduism does not in any way preclude the way you rest in the intellectual purity of Buddhism. Contemplating the Tao Te Ching strengthens what the Hopi elders have taught you: that the Earth is alive, that she is your Mother, that she is the love of your life.

From Wild Mercy, Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr 

A Prayer for Mothers Day

I open myself to the Source of all creation.  It is both mother and father and all that is seen and unseen.  It created me out of Its perfection and it only knows my wholeness. As I open my spiritual eyes I recall that place within that knows this like I know my own name and I take refuge.  I am safe, I am loved, I am home.

As I raise my awareness to this essential reality in my life, my mind and my heart open as my vision clears and I look upon the world as the mother.  I chose to love myself, I chose to love what I label “other”.  Like the preverbal mother, I see all creation as the child.  Sometimes it behaves in ways I approve and promote and sometimes in ways I can’t fathom, but it is still the child, the creation of the One and I chose love, no exceptions.  And it is the power of this love that heals and reveals a greater good, a clearer understanding and a pathway to what is mine to do to be this powerful love in action.

While my thoughts and emotions may wander in the din of a world crying out for love, I come home again and again to this eternal truth that we are One in the heart of the Mother of creation and that she is calling us home to Her love to remember the power and presence that we are made of.

I take refuge in the Mother, I take refuge in prayer, I take refuge in Love.  I am one with the love of my life.

I am blessed beyond measure and with a grateful heart I let this be.

and so it is, amen, ashe, blessed be