A Woman’s Wisdom

Early Spring Sunset by Ed Hoffman

“If in fact the highest, most creative work is the work of consciousness, then in slowing down we’re not doing less: we’re doing more…Having slowed down physically we’re in a better space to rev up psychically. We are becoming contemplative…We’re going slower in order to go deeper, in order to go faster in the direction of urgently needed change in the world.”   ~ Marianne Williamson

Women over fifty have important work to do. I see this more clearly every day as I witness, in amazement, the wise women who are willing to share their truth, their strength, and their love in ways they could not have done when they were younger. We may be sensing our body slowing down, or our mind tripping over itself more frequently, but a deeper, richer, more significant place of strength grows more prominent with each passing day.  This is the place from which we must make our stand.

The world needs the steady hand of wisdom. A woman’s wisdom…refined by years of struggle, pain, and disappointment, and the stubborn refusal to give in to despair…reveals a more perfect understanding of the true nature of love, the need for forgiveness and an unyielding willingness to continue in hope.  We possess a burgeoning inner knowledge that has no use for restrictions placed by worldly standards or external expectations.

The contemplative nature of the aging is a gift, not only to the one who has made the shift, but to the world of the innocent who have yet to come to understand the depth that life holds for them. Do not be afraid of what you have been given. It is your destiny. It is the world’s necessity. It is its hunger.