Sisterhood, community and real friendship are things high on the priority for me and Daughters of Sheba Foundation. We strive to be supportive, stand in the gap for each other and lend a hand if and when needed.
Are we perfect at what we do? No. Do we get it right everytime? Certainly not. Will we keep trying to be the best that each of us can be, first for ourselves and then for all others? That is the intention as we move to reawaken the "All-Woman" of our beings.
What does that mean - "to reawaken the 'All-Woman' of our beings?"
Growing up in the 70's in a developing country - Jamaica - where the political temperature was set on high and the ripple effects of the Black Power Movement in the United States were touching our lives, I became acutely aware of my heritage. My potentials, the possibilities and the purpose of my life as a young woman were coming into sharp focus aided and abetted by the rhetoric of the then Prime Minister, the late Michael Manley. His wife at the time, Beverly Manley, embodied for me a vision of what I could be - educated, articulate, strong, unafraid, supportive of other women and seemingly loved by her man.
It would take many years (at least two decades in fact), many trials and errors (including that of my role models), being diagnosed clinically depressed, major health challenges and financial 'ruin' for me to begin to understand what I thought I knew.
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Reawakening, you see, requires both darkness and light. It is my conviction that when we arrived here and throughout our formative years (some experts say three, some six), we knew who we are. As life unfolded, as our 'teachers', including and mainly parents, molded our minds and as lovers broke our hearts we went back to bed. For some, it was more as if they fell into a coma.
In this stage of virtual comatosed existence, the energy vampires come alive. They thrive on sucking the dreams, hopes and even smiles of others. Front of centre they feel is their birthright. Everyone must acquiesce to their requests, demands and opinions of things even when there lives are in total contrast to their utterances.
Life is the ultimate equalizer. I can attest to that. She abhors imbalance in all its expressions whether in nature or human behaviour. Life flourishes when energy is flowing freely and according to 'need'. Our environment constantly demonstrates this truth. So it is in us humans - we can sleepwalk for so long, suck, sap and steal energy from others to a point, then Life will correct course us.
“Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.”
― T. Scott McLeod
An All-Woman is one who has zapped and has been zapped by others, has fallen to her rock bottom, has been saturated, overdosed on other peoples' energies and finally reawakened by the Mother of mothers - Life.
There is no better way to express this than in the words of Sonny Carrol:
"Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never ever settle for less than your heart's desire. And a sense of power is born of self-reliance. And you live with honor and integrity because you know that these principles are not the outdated ideals of a by-gone era but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build your life. And you make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting and to stay open to every wonderful opportunity and exciting possibility. Then you hang a wind chime outside your window to remind yourself what beauty there is in Simplicity."
Read the full poem here and see whether you are still sleep-existing or reawakened. You can share your thoughts in our comments section, on our page at www.facebook. com/daughtersofsheba or tweet us @DOSFoundation.
Be blessed, stay awake until tomorrow! Namaste
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