Divine Mother

"Only the Love is Real." -- A Course in Miracles

My mother, Doris Lee Melise, passed away on Monday... she was 91 years old.  Although the last few years were pretty rough, Mom had a wonderful life, and was blessed with a huge extended family that adored her.  The memorial service is today, and it has me reflecting on the concepts and ideas of mother that I learned and unlearned through being her daughter, and through being a mother to my children and now a grandmother to my four grandsons.  One thing I know for sure... now that the sick and suffering image of Mom has passed on, all I can remember is the love... all I can remember is a loving and generous spirit... a stubborn Irish determination laced with pure love. 

So it's easy for me to image God as Divine Mother, as the supreme Love and nurturance of Spirit.  Our earthly relations are vital to us in this world, providing the relational settings and situations we have chosen.  But our true Source Mother remains, eternal and omnipresent, the very womb in which we remain, safe and secure, forever.  Divine Mother doesn't require us to grow up or separate, and can never leave us.  Divine Mother is a symbolic image of the One, the unchanging Love and absolute Principle of Oneness that is our true Self.

The one phrase that mom used to use whenever some drama arose in the family: "This too shall pass."  And that is the perfect expression for this earthly drama we call life.  But she also taught us what endures... the Love that embraces and connects.  We never lacked for the material, but most importantly we were fed on the spiritual our whole lives, so we always knew that the passing was not the important part.  Mom taught us that only the Love is Real. 

You can view a video tribute to my mother by clicking here, or on her name above.