Girl Power Day

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Everyone has their own version of truth.  I prefer Marianne Williamson’s take on this day, Friday the 13th.  The following is one of my favorite passages from her book “A Woman’s Worth”:

We are used to thinking of Friday the thirteenth as bad luck.  In fact, Friday the thirteenth was the day the witches gathered.  When the patriarchal system, headed by the early church, began to squelch the power of women, witches were deemed evil, and many great women were deemed witches.  Their meeting time, then, was seen as bad luck rather than as what it truly was: a time to gather and share energy and pray together and heal.

Our mystical power should not be relegated to the distant past.  It still exists.  I want mine now, and so does every woman I know.  Our power is not evil but good.  We must reclaim our goodness as well as our power.  Today, the reason we haven’t found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place.  Neither man nor work can restore our lost scepter.  Nothing in this world can take us home.  Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, we return to our castles.  There we are crowned in gold, and we remember how to laugh, how to love, how to rule.

We can’t look to the world to restore our worth: we’re here to restore our worth to the world.  The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it.  It cannot crown us.  Only God can crown us, and he already has.

Reflect in your journal - or blog:) – how this resonates for you. 

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