Listening to Mothers Singing to their Children
Where I am right now I can here a group of mothers singing to their children the same nursery rhyme together. It is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. They sang with such gentleness like a comforting breeze blown into the world of the children singing to their hearts and souls. I felt the love and unity in the women singing. This was wonderful for them to come out of isolation at home with children to get together and enjoy their children.
I was recently at a birthday and a group of women formed a drumming circle. They drummed in harmony. I felt this as the harmonic of peace. They made intentions for a better world. I see women as arising to unify our divided world.
It raises the issues of the separation of mothers from children through childcare. I know the children will feel so comforted to be sitting in the laps of their mum’s listening to their soothing and loving voice. This is where real security is born. In a day care centre there is no way the staff can give that type of community feeling.
We are losing community as we are no longer living in a real community of mothers, children, grand parents and neighbours. We are forced to work as we can’t afford one wage and for those fortunate or determined enough to determine their own children’s future I feel the lullaby of peace descending on them.
The information technology age was supposed to deliver more leisure time, instead it bound us more and more to work. This is the epicentre of the break up of society. So when we see the impassive faces walking past they are in cities where they do not feel the connection or they feel fearful of their community.
A future society will ensure that the children grow up in nurturing, healthy environments with either fathers or mothers as care givers. One of my ideas was to have women and men work part time and receive 3/4 of the full time wage in a job share arrangement. So children can be with at least one parent in the morning and one in the afternoon. What it does for men is it amplifies nurturing skills in them which awakens the feminine within. What it does for women is to give them time at work to reconnect and awaken the masculine in them. So we will discover a re calibration towards harmony.
When children grow up loved and secure then we have a real foundation to living in harmony with the world. In my REAL HOPE program the purpose there was to integrate universal values so children can navigate life through their natural values. They learn to speak to the truth, they learn empathy for others (not just my way or the highway), they learn responsibility and participation in community. They would learn to resolve conflict. They would learn about prejudice and the divisive nature of discrimination instead learning to not fear difference but explore it and empathise with those who may be demonised. Oneness is that we are on one earth and we share the same air, resources and share a common stewardship here. REAL HOPE is really the gift I have created and it is to usher in REAL HOPE as a foundation stone for a renewable world that evolves into its potential. We have enormous potential still unrealised.
There is no job more important than the nurturing of children. It is critical that this is done from an awareness of what children truly need without controlling them but gently guiding them into their full expression. Children need to feel they can be children, they need to run around, they need to play and explore and take risks. It is not to control, dominate and restrict them to fit into adults lives. It is for our entire society to design itself around them. It is to create suburbs where people know each other in community.
When I was young we all walked around the suburb we knew our neighbours. Even our dog Linus would wander around free. I can remember riding on a Dalmatian it was like a horse. I recall jumping on my skateboard and going down the driveway – up and down. I did run on the road and got told off. I remember riding my bike at the back of our suburb in the bush. I used to ride in the backyard turning my bike into a horse. I actually put reins on the handle bars to make it feel like it was a horse. I used to do gymnastics out the back. I climbed trees, I fell out of the tree and winded myself. My mum was not really much of a nurturer she just said lie over there you’ll be right as I gasped for air. So they raised us without pampering that is for sure. It’s funny I remember my mum plucking my eye brows and for me it was the most nurturing moment. I always remember it. I was outside in the sun and she was plucking away and blowing my face. Sounds funny writing this. Children need to feel loved and cared for.
We have to care and look after the nurturers. Not help them but participate in this activity to build community and learn to share in order to benefit others. I am watching a grandmother picking flowers with a 4 year old. I love the simple activity of enjoying nature in moments of simplicity that mean everything to a child.
I would have loved to be a mother and I have seen a deep nurturing in myself towards children. I have it naturally which is why I pursued the peace area or life awakened that as my purpose in this life. I love community myself but set out on my own to learn truth and to look upon my world. I recognise the lack of nurturing and love is a key problem and how the smallest kindness is not seen as significant. No loving act is irrelevant it is the very foundation of peace on our planet. The sacrifice I’ve made is out of a deep sense of love and responsibility for others. I do not dedicate myself to peace for myself alone, I do it for the betterment of others as I love so deeply. It cannot be put into words my honouring of others. I see the greatness in every face.
This blog is in celebration of the nurturers of the world who protectively and lovingly create peace in a way that is positive, uplifting and nurturing of others. I celebrate all they do that is not recognised or unpaid in service to humanity through the love of their children. I love that women think of others and share what they have and create a sense of community so needed.
I feel peace when I listen to the voices of the mothers, I feel healing, nurturing, harmony and their great importance in this world.