Calling all Grandmothers

This image and words below were recently posted on Facebook by my Shero, Beth Weaver-Kreider, and they hit me hard today. 

With all that is going on in the world, the unspeakable tragedies, the atrocities that are being done to our children..I can't bring myself to dig too deep nor look too long at the news because I will be so overcome with rage and sorrow that I'll crawl into bed and be of no use to anyone. I haven't yet figured out exactly how I can rise up and help, in my own small way, but I want to do something. Many women my age are saying the same, yet we feel helpless, caught in this trap of uncertainty and fear, convinced that we don't have the power, the voice, to make changes. But what if we do? What would that require? What would that look like? I'm thinking aloud here, putting these queries out into the Universe in the hope that somehow the answer will come..soon. 

We have to live differently.

or we will die in the same old ways.

Therefore I call on all Grand Mothers

everywhere on the planet to rise

and take your place in the leadership

of the world.

Come out of the kitchen

out of the fields

out of the beauty parlors

out of the television

Step forward and assume the role

for which you were created:

to lead humanity

to health, happiness and sanity.

I call on all the Grand Mothers of Earth

and every person who possesses

the Grand Mother Spirit

of respect for life and

protection of the young

to rise and lead - Alice Walker

Image by: Jo Jayson http://www.jojayson.com/expressions-of-the-sacred-feminine/