Mahal na Ina

"I met my old lover on the street last night."
- Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon

I bumped into my old self last night. I started reading this book and it brought back to me how much of my awareness, consciousness and growth came from my life with books. Books are like friends. They are the unconditional teachers that offer what you Yourself will take.

I was first a feminist from reading. Then friends came along, who brought more books. And of course, there's always Life.

And now, there is Her, our God, the Mother. It brings tears to my eyes, when I read how women have not been free to also define the spiritual. We hold up half the sky, and within us, lies the Divine.

I would give each of you a copy but since I can't, take notice if it pops up in your life :) Bless you, Merry Christmas, mula kay Nanay.


The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
For years, award-winning author Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, the acclaimed author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that women have lost within patriarchal faith traditions. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women— one that retains a meaningful connection with the “deep song of Christianity,” embraces the sacredness of ordinary women’s experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman’s life— her marriage, her career, and her religion.

P.S. Thanks HB for pointing out this book to me :)