I know life feels unsteady
and the world uncertain.
There are cracks everywhere
and so much to mourn.
Despite the disasters,
the discord,
the disappointment,
I still invite you to return.
I ask you to inhabit where you are,
to call your spirit back
and let it land in your body.
I encourage you to make
a prayer of presence
with what you find today.
Construct it from raindrops,
from dogwood blooms,
from lilac and lily.
Let yourself inquire
with imagination
and discover what you can dream.
Do not surrender joy.
Keep lifting your own small fist
of resistance.
Be brave enough to keep loving
this determined and devoted Earth,
offering your own small flame of hope
into the sacred fire
that keeps it all spinning
in an infinite and expanded space
of continually unfolding
mystery.
I know that things feel tender and uncertain now, unstable and wounded, and yet you are here. I hope you are finding bits of beauty and scraps of enchantment where you are. I hope you are savoring spring sunshine and April raindrops. I hope there are violets in the grass and phoebes nesting in the trees. I hope you can root yourself in belonging and hope, right where you are. Our shop update today featured our special edition Plant Magic pigment for April’s month of healing and restoration.
This week's magic:
12 minute video: nourishing wholeness
New essay on Feminism and Religion: Showing Up
Past related post from FAR: Nourishing Wholeness in a Fractured World
Resource Reminders:
April’s supplies are ready for A Year of Goddess Magic! Our theme for April is Heal.
Note: there is not a new post in our free series, An Introduction to Goddess Studies, this week as our Simple and Sacred circle replay is going up on Saturday instead. (Simple and Sacred circles are free monthly online rituals for people on the #30DaysofGoddess email list.)
Life’s Bits and Pieces:
Thinking about:
my own quote from my FAR piece this week: We are our own proof of the holy, the sacred alive within us right now. And, so we pause, we open our eyes, we open our hearts, we open our hands. We offer what we can offer. We share what we can share. We create what we can create. We do what we can do. We remember that one of the most radical acts of all is to pay attention, to refuse to be hijacked by despair and disregard, but to reach out anyway, to persist in carefully and lovingly tending to our own part of the web...
Looking forward to:
brief trip to Big Cedar next week. We cancelled our planned trip to MA in March, but we really do need a small, simple getaway of some kind.
podcast interview with my family this weekend.
house blessing ritual for my friend (end of month).
visiting my sister (also end of month).
finishing up this homeschool year with Tanner and deciding where to go from here.
Reading:
to self: Unseelie. This is fantasy YA fiction that caught my eye at the library this weekend when I was leading writer’s club. It draws inspiration from the theory that what people in the long ago past might have described as “changelings” were actually autistic people. This book is about twin sisters, one of whom is a changeling and one is the baby she was meant to be exchanged for, but their mother went after her and kept both babies to raise. I haven’t gotten very far into it yet. Involves the fae though (seelie).
to kids: Rogue Knight. Book two in the Five Kingdoms series. These are long books.
listening to: How to Keep House While Drowning. A quick audio book at only 3 hours, this is very, very, very elementary/simplistic and…I like it. It takes any moralizing out of housekeeping (or “care tasks”) and breaks it down into the simplest possible components. Has already helped me and I’ve still got two hours of it left.
Blog Posts:
Cultivating Contentment and Nourishing Wholeness
I know you feel like you
never have enough time.
In this moment,
pause,
breathe in restoration,
breathe in peace,
breathe in healing.
In this moment,
you have all the time you need.
Let stillness soak into you.
Feel the power of pausing
strengthen you.
Here,
between being and doing,
grant yourself space
to be a good friend
to your own heart.
Reminder: You have the power to nourish your own healing and wholeness, to cultivate contentment where you are, and to trust yourself and your unfolding process of change.
Journal prompts for the week:
How can I nourish my wholeness?
How can I cultivate contentment?
What does nourishment look like for me right now?
How can I pause and restore my sense of connection?
Affirmations for the week:
I am whole, beloved, and complete.
I honor the lessons I've learned on my journey.
I direct my gaze within and listen.
I taste the nectar of deep nourishment.
I nourish myself well and wisely.
My life is good.
I am content with my life.
I cultivate contentment.
I nourish my wholeness.
There is beauty in the becoming,
even in the ragged edges
and bleeding dreams.
Let us inhabit where we are.
Let us embody what we know
and what we dare to see.
This world needs us
to make a stand for the sacred,
to name and claim the holy
right where we are.
Much love,
Molly, Mark, + Family
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