Hi Moms!
May is here at last! This month, I am looking forward to planting flowers, celebrating new growth, and seeing all of you out and about at this month’s Walks, Craft Play date, Potluck, Park Play date, Mother Earth celebration at Strawberry Hill, and more!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the choices we make as mothers and how it seems no matter how wonderful others think we are, many of us have a hard time realizing it. We are the hardest on ourselves, hearing only the voices who say we are making the wrong choices, not loving enough, not giving enough, etc.
So in honor of the month of Mother’s day, I wanted to share with you an ancient blessing, originally created in the Nahuatl language, spoken in Mexico. May we all find release from feelings of inadequacy and embrace our own power and strength as the Mothers our children adore.
“I release my parents from the feeling that they have already failed me.
I release my children from the need to bring pride to me; that they may write their own ways according to their hearts, that whisper all the time in their ears.
I release my partner from the obligation to complete myself. I do not lack anything, I learn with all beings all the time.
I thank my grandparents and forefathers who have gathered so that I can breathe life today. I release them from past failures and unfulfilled desires, aware that they have done their best to resolve their situations within the consciousness they had at that moment. I honor you, I love you and I recognize you as innocent.
I am transparent before your eyes, so they know that I do not hide or owe anything other than being true to myself and to my very existence, that walking with the wisdom of the heart, I am aware that I fulfill my life project, free from invisible and visible family loyalties that might disturb my Peace and Happiness, which are my only responsibilities.
I renounce the role of savior, of being one who unites or fulfills the expectations of others.
Learning through, and only through, LOVE, I bless my essence, my way of expressing, even though somebody may not understand me.
I understand myself, because I alone have lived and experienced my history; because I know myself, I know who I am, what I feel, what I do and why I do it.
I respect and approve myself.
We are free.”
Love,
Morgan S.
MSMAC President
