What are the characteristics of The Grandmother?
The Crone, the Wise One?
She is steady, dependable, forgiving.
She is loving and available.
She is sensitive and gentle, kind and lighthearted.
She would rather be happy than right.
She is generous and patient.
To be in The Grandmothers’ embrace is to understand the stillness of Love,
the quiet of safety,
the freedom from Fear,
the power of listening.
To be in Her embrace is to know
your heart at rest
and your breath deep and easy.
Come, little one,
Come to the Grandmother.
let your mind be open.
Press your small bones against
the yielding breasts and the warm belly
full of life and goodwill.
Let her gnarled hands soothe away
the heartache from your tousled head and worried brow….
Let her gnarled hands smooth your countenance and
Hold your secrets and lessen your burden.
Call in The Grandmother whose lap
can hold and hold and hold, tirelessly,
until you have enough
and are filled up with the plenty of it.
Come, come little one.
Allow your small bones, saddened with lies and betrayals,
to lean into The Grandmother.
Feel your body respond
to the truth of it; the healing.
Feel your body grow strong and erect,
Balanced and confident
with the spine aligned in the quiet prayer
of The Grandmothers embrace.
Call in The Grandmother.
She is waiting,
singing the song of Love:
The melody that is, has been and always will be.
Let go to Her the tremble of fear and
sing away the distortions that block the light to Loves’ presence.
Come, little one, come.
Sing away the dread.
Sing away the pain with the melody of Love,
sing with The Grandmother.
Feel the resonance deep inside your body and know,
in that place of Knowing
that the child will never have to be afraid again.