A Request From My King

"The fierceness of the lioness is as right and beautiful as the roar of the lion. She is loving and tender towards her young, yet fiercely protective whenever they are threatened." This is the way of a mother and her young.

Last night I was compelled to share this picture on Instagram that I came across sometime ago, via Tumblr. I added a combination of quotes from the book I'm currently reading, "A Woman's Worth", by Marianne Williamson and my King left a comment stating that I needed to add more. He is familiar with it because I've read him several passages from the book during our drives together. Hence, this blog post this morning...

The fierceness of the lioness is as right and beautiful as the roar of the lion. She is loving and tender towards her young, yet fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. This is the way of a mother and her young.

"Every woman should remember that we have the intuitive radar to know exactly how to listen to our children, what to say to our children, and how to love our children. Parenting classes and books can be helpful. but their main purpose should be to serve as tools by which we are put in touch with our natural wisdom, not directed away from it. Good parenting is not intellectual as much as emotional and intuitive. 

A key to mothering is to visualize our children as the adults we would love them to become: strong, happy, serious, loving. Now imagine what kind of mother they must have had to grow into such fabulous grown-ups. And whatever that is, becoming it is the task that lies before us.

Most people are not great parents because they don't want to take the time to do the job well. It takes time to explain to a  child the truthful, conscious answers to all his or her questions. It takes intuition and skill to track his or her thoughts and feelings. It takes more than most of us are willing to give to protect a child from the meaningless stimulus of the world around him or her. Yet there is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. 

It's important to say yes to a child whenever possible, instead of no. Instead of pointing out what they can't do, we can point out all the things they can do. We want to teach children about ever-increasing possibilities, not ever-decreasing ones. All of these become, after all, the mental habits they will carry with them all their lives. 

We have taught children repeatedly that they are not the power centers of their own lives. We train them into a kind of slavery, by teaching them the ways of those who let other people determine what their lives will be, what their options will be, and how they can serve a system outside themselves. However, some parents teach children, "The world is yours. Go out there and get it. Enjoy yourselves!" Children soak up these messages like dry sponges, and they stand in line, with everyone else who has been told by their parents what reality is, to live the lives prescribed for them at a young and tender age.

We must teach our children that the abundance in the world is infinite and available to everyone because it comes from within us. As we teach our kids to bless the world, celebrate the world, and embrace the world, we hand them the keys to success."

A Woman's Worth, ~Marianne Williamson