Our Journey Through Health and Knowledge
enhancing, exploring and expanding our health and lifestyle togetherArchive for February, 2009
thoughts as expanding takes place
over the past couple of years, probably longer, but very consciously over the past couple of years, my outlook, my perceptions of self and world have been in a constant state of flux. a very dear friend gave me a book recently that is bringing to the forefront of my mind what may have started happening in me. as i am reading this and meditating and researching (because i cannot do one thing at a time), i came across a unique site, yoni.com. in starting to delve into the site, one of the discussions i came across was on having sex during your menstrual cycle. it brought forth a question that i do not think i have ever ruminated upon before. i would love to hear your thoughts and discussion on this, as so many of you are so much wiser than i. so the common perception or at least the common ‘public’ response for connecting sexually, spiritually and emotionally during the menstrual cycle is one of disgust, uncleanliness and sin. why is this? from where does this come? is this simply another one of the ways to ‘keep women in their place’? is this stemming from the biblical tradition of exiling a woman during her ‘time’? a woman is ‘unclean’ during this time, so any association with her thereby makes you unclean? of course if you look at biblical traditions, a woman is always unclean. in this book there was a quote i had never heard before, but know the feelings behind it:
“second to be created, first to sin”
i have no answers, i have nothing more than questions. this is the beginning of my conscious exploration on my own sacred feminine and my own embracing of woman as woman for woman. this is just simply my thoughts and questions today, for today, for love today.
please interact, i am interested in your opinions and thoughts and past experiences.
the shack and a weekend of discovery
there are books that come out and they are a sensation. they touch upon the need our souls, our minds, our hearts need. they are god speaking to us directly. i fully believe when these books enter into a person’s life, they are there at the moment they are most needed.
i have heard of the shack. there were several bible study groups on the book at church. i had not yet read it. i bought the book for t, for her birthday, but did not want to sully her book by reading it first. i think god was having me wait until i was fully prepared to read this book. i got the book to read from an unlikely source. i think that is part of gods speaking to me. the book is my sisters, my eldest. i came by the book from my middle sister, who had borrowed it from the other.
the act of borrowing and loaning books between us girls is not unusual, although as of late, it is rare. i believe with all i know of god and with all that was reaffirmed in this reading, this was his intention. there is so much between my sisters and i right now. and it is not a healthy place for me. i know god was reaching out to my ability, albeit unknown, to forgive, to love and to move on.
i do not want to go into the specifics of the book… but i will say this, please read this book. if you believe in god, if you dont, read this book. it will forever change your outlook. i am not preaching christianity here… please do not take it as such. i am preaching what god has always preached, lived, loved and believed… LOVE. whether that LOVE is god, buddha, or someone else, he/she/it is LOVE.
LOVE your god. LOVE your world. LOVE your neighbor. LOVE yourself. probably the hardest to do, yet the most vital. i struggle with this… and i am now ready to begin the process of loving me, knowing i am worthy of that love and of that LOVE.
as i said, i believe god puts this and books like this in our paths when we most need it.
i needed it.
i read it.
i HEARD god.
