Raising Nature’s Child
In a time where there is an app for everything, new smart technologies to think for us, and the never ending reminder to trust the science - do we remember or know how to trust ourselves?
With every convenience we have, a sacrifice is made, usually one we aren’t even aware of directly.
As we move into a technocrat society, what does it even mean to raise nature’s child? What is nature? It seems we have worked hard to push nature away, to repel it and live in a way that it does not intrude on our every day life. Nature is only acceptable if we seek it out, but it remains separate from our lives.
Not too long ago women were the gatherers, homemakers, the life force - bringing miracles into the world. There were no apps to let woman know when they were ovulating, they understood their bodies, its changes, and they understood the changes of seasons - within themselves each month, as well as their environment around them. They understood the sky, the changing of the sun in its intensity, height in the sky above and the changes of the moon. They were connected to the nature around them, which allowed them to understand themselves - realizing the connection they shared with the elements of the world, of our creator.
Eventually we thought we were smarter then nature, we thought we could even out smart it, do better than what God had created for us. We are now amidst a technology driven era, where we no longer think for ourselves and are desperately disconnected from who we are, the earth and our creator. We no longer listen to our body or know when it’s talking to us, we no longer know the subtle signs it whispers to us, we barely hear it when it begins to scream. We are constantly looking outside of ourselves for answers, for quick fixes, for anything and anyone to pass on the responsibility and the blame.
Women used to work together in communities, support one another, pass down stories, recipes, knowledge and wisdom. A women’s first period was celebrated and the young woman was honoured as she enters womanhood, the ability to create life - miracles. Through pregnancy, young mothers were often supported by other women/mothers in the community, who would then attend the birth to support the mother delivering the baby. The woman was cared for, loved and supported, feeling empowered through her rite of passage to motherhood. Her baby also loved and welcomed earthside, as a perfect, divine miracle, needing only their mothers touch, warmth, love and milk. Women walked in sacred circles with one another, the heart of every home.
We see now a different story. Women often isolated, caring for the home and working fulltime careers, trying to do it all, missing the support of other woman in community. We spend our days in our boxes (homes), to go to work in another box (indoors), commuting between the two in a mobile box (vehicle). We are cut off from the world and specifically nature. Exhausted once home, we typically numb ourselves with TV or a beverage before heading to bed to do it all over again. The hustle and bustle, of our fast paced society, leaving no time or energy to research or look into varying topics - we simply leave it up to the “experts” to tell us what is best, for ourselves and our children. We even place our children in the care of someone else to raise and teach. We’ve forgotten we are the experts of our own life and of our children.
How are we to raise nature’s child, when we don’t know what that means for ourselves?
We see this as a woman finds out she’s pregnant - often first thing is to book an appointment with a Dr or Midwife, to do blood work, an ultra sound and confirm. Immediately by-passing our intuition and listening and observing the changes within our own bodies. We need immediate confirmation, everything accelerated. We then proceed to regular appointments, a few more ultrasounds and tests to make sure everything is progressing appropriately, that everything is “normal” - what is normal and defined by who? At each appointment we concede responsibility of our bodies and that of our babies - proving how disconnected we are from self. Mothers intuition already being sacrificed and conditioned to ignore and place in the hands of someone else - an “expert.”
When it is time to bring baby into the world, it is typically done in a sterile environment in a hospital with many medical staff. Mom is told how to position herself, how to breathe, when to push and for how long. She is placed in someone elses story, and is completely outside of herself as she listens to external noise on how to conduct her own body and being. Again fully disconnected from self, and all intuition being removed by external “experts”.
Once baby is born, they are taken to a bed - away from mom, where they are dried, rubbed, examined under bright lights and given injections (vitamin k), and erthrymycin on their eyes (as mom supposedly may have chlamydia). This ritual shows parents their baby is flawed, weak, and needs mans creation of synthetics to ensure it survives.
“for it was You who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I will praise You because I have been fearfully and wonderfully made”. Psalm 139: 13-14
We have forgotten that each one of us is perfectly, divinely designed, without mistakes. God doesn’t make mistakes, humans do.
We continue to give up responsibility over ourselves, our motherly intuition and our own connection as we voluntarily book our well baby visits at each marker of development to ensure our baby is developing “normally,” that they are growing well, eating well, that they are healthy and of course to continue to receive man’s synthetic creation because our creator obviously made mistakes when our precious babies were conceived and brought into this world. Man knows best - isn’t this what we’ve been told over and over?
It’s time to break the cycle! To put an end to the control and victimhood that we are succumbing to. It’s time to reconnect back to ourselves, to our creator and back to nature - so we can indeed move forward to raise nature’s child in all its glory, beauty and magic that comes with it! It’s time to remember our sacred womanhood, our gifts, stories and whispers for ancestors and remember that we are the life force that continues to bring miracles into this world for generations. It’s time to take back our power in all its might and to pass this onto our children so the cycle truly ends and we are no longer victims in someone elses story. We are in control of ourselves and most importantly our children.
This begins with understanding how perfect we are created and our connection to nature - we are one with nature, we are nature, and have a symbiotic relationship even down to the breath we share with the plants and trees around us. This is intentionally so with every breath, we remember, we are one, we are connected and rely on each other’s existence to survive.
Nature’s complexity is truly amazing. These complexities and the abundant gifts around us, opens a window or a door into our own intricacies. Our own perfect divine design. How sad is it that we continue to destroy it all; nature and ourselves. How wrong we've come to understand the human body, how wrong we've gotten it all.
The nut trees, for example, teach us important lessons in the seasons of life. How amazing that there's a strategy in when nut trees drop their nuts every three years. On years of abundant food, the squirrels do well, have more babies, they also can't keep up with the nuts that have dropped and new trees are planted. More squirrels, means more hawks, more foxes etc. The next fall less nuts, which means the squirrels have to come out and search more leaving them vulnerable as prey and the population decreases. The trees then can produce more nuts knowing not all will be consumed and trees will be planted. Without this cycle in nature there wouldn't be any generational continuation of the nut tree.
We all have our cycles, phases and seasons in life and they all have a purpose. When we allow ourselves to sit in the discomfort, the stillness, it allows us to see and feel the experience, the lessons being taught and the growth happening, leading us into our next phase of life.
I look forward to the day we all begin sit in this discomfort, with patience and the goal of understanding. Where we gain wisdom and insight into who we are, who our creator is, and connect back to all that is important to us. Once we can achieve this, then we can truly raise nature’s child. Our future generations.
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