“God is father, and God is mother also. God has those two faces and a million more. Father God creates, protects, teaches, and empowers us. Mother God is the cosmic nurturer: she feeds us, cares for us, and holds us in her arms. Let’s not argue over petty issues. God is both male and female, Father and Mother.
And so are we. Beyond our gender, we are all just light. We are one with God, with each other, and ourselves. Sex falls away that we might find union of a higher order. Any other knowledge is peripheral vision and ultimately blindness. The last thing to trip up on is whether God is male or female. Call it either; call it both. All that matters is that we call it, period.
And when we
do, our hearts do melt. Our rage transmutes. Our burdens are released. And that is our birth into who we really are. It’s messy and painful and noisy and big. But it’s all that matters and it’s all we’re here for, to chuck these stupid clothes we wear, of false ambition and pride and fear, and come out naked and beautiful and new.
The only beloved who can always be counted on is God. The ultimate partner is a divine one, an experience of ourselves that is totally supportive and forgiving. What this means is that no partner can save us, deliver us, or give meaning to our lives. The source of our salvation, deliverance, and meaning is within us. It is the love we give as much as it is the love we get. The passion we most need to feed is our relationship to God. This is ultimately our relationship to ourselves.”
A Woman’s Worth, Marianne Williamson, P. 83 – 84, 139.
