It gets real… really really real.
Every day is dawn until past dusk of doing their sacred work while laughing and singing and dancing along the way…
While taking care of everyone and their extended family and friends, cooking from scratch (including farming the food), cleaning, praying, loving unconditionally, often working outside of the home too… and of course we can’t forget about shopping!
And they don’t get a day off.
They do it with such grace, and seemingly without stress. I’m not trying to say it’s easy, because it isn’t, but what would probably be impossible in another country, culture and context proves possible here.
So what is the secret?
It seems like people here know how to take care of themselves, so they can truly take care of others. They also tend to have access to a higher love, spirituality, and support system that seems to fill them up so they have enough to overflow without being left empty. In the US, we often don’t learn how to take care of ourselves, and we don’t have true physical or spiritual nourishment and nurturing to fill us up, and we are told and sold that we need to fill that emptiness with material things, yet that leads to even more emptiness. So when it is time to truly take care of others, especially a child, we get drained and depleted.
So what is the missing ingredient?
I asked Guru Aama what she suggests we can do to start taking steps towards being healthier. She said everyone in the world needs unconditional love. That is the foundation of health, and with that the rest will follow. She said she has seen that we seem to have a very confused and confining concept of love. We don’t learn pure love from our families or at school, so how are we supposed to know it and grow it?
So how do we find unconditional love?
Well when we can’t count on it being all around us… all we can really do is find love for ourselves and hope that will radiate out into the world.
So how do we do that?
I don’t know. If I did, my work would be done. But that is my work to do, and maybe it will take many lifetimes, or maybe it can happen in an instant as soon as I decide to.
For women and witches…
Mama mixin’ up magic in the kitchen
Made for lovin’ and lickin
A magical brew
Nothin’ says “I love you” like soup and stew
With every stir, she leaves a piece of her
Loving magic is gonna heal you
From the roots below to the fruits above
Mix it up and add some love
Put everything you got into your pot
Bring it to a boil and simmer it hot
What once was alone is now all one
What once was one is now so much more
That’s a food fight worth fighting for
So living loving beings of the world unite
Dance your tasty tango and do it up right
Mixamagic mambo put the pieces together again
It’ll make you better my friend
It’ll be your food and medicine
From the broth to the bone
You’ll never be alone
Nothin’ says love like the soup and the spoon and the stone
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