I recently spoke with a childhood friend who was in the midst of a relationship crisis & it broke my heart to hear her struggling & feeling like she wasn't strong enough to make much needed changes. I wanted to reach through the phone & shake her because to me the solution was so obvious. But don't we always have greater clarity when we're not involved in the situation? When I got off the phone Ruby was staring at me with her big blue eyes as if she had just absorbed the entire conversation. And this got me thinking about women & our importance & how we often sell ourselves short. And I gave that baby of mine a talking to & told her about the kind of woman that I want her to become. About choosing to be strong & self-assured & taking control of the one life she's been given for crying out loud. And heaven knows I will frequently remind her of this if she acts a fool.
This quote by Marianne Williamson is perfection: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” I wonder what the next generation of daughters would look like if we as mothers believed this truth & allowed it to become who we are. That would be a beautiful, unstoppable generation.
