Welcome To The Magic Of Sacred Story Sharing
“I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.”
Mother Ida B. Wells
I’ve been slowly arriving to the majesty of Mother Ida’s sacred stories. There’s so much in her life, in her writings, and in her legacy that I think can nourish us as creators in the Garden. The intensity of her labors is a lot to be with. I am learning how not to rush anything before its ready to be known. Mother Ida speaks to me, sporadically, in moments when I am not looking for her. She wants to be a part of our Garden journeys. I am still feeling for the way. She’ll be in the Sitting With The Mothers practice for sure. But there’s more that is waiting to be realized. When I know more, I will share more. For now, sharing this quote from her seemed connected to our discoveries today.
Watch today’s love note!
Greetings Magnificent Creators!
I begin today’s love note while nursing Revvy awake or asleep. I can’t yet tell. I’ve been up for several hours already because another munchkin wet the bed and then I just stayed up to begin preparing today’s offerings. We’ll see how the day has unfolded by the time this note is ready to post.
Right now it’s quiet. I am composing these words with my fingers while the computer recharges. At some point I will return to typing on a keyboard. But this is also how so much writing happens—laying down, breast in a baby’s mouth, soft, instrumental music playing, fan spinning on low. Every moment is a fertile moment.
For our second day of Welcome Week for the Summer Garden, I invite you to journey with me inside Welcome To The Magic Of Sacred Story Sharing. I’m excited to go deeper with you into a core seed of our way of life in the Garden: Our Stories Are Our Wealth. As I slow down even more, and really take in the bounty we’ve generated over these last 15 months—yes today is the Garden’s 15 month mark!!—I am finding more nuances and dimensions within the abundance consciousness of my stories, of all our stories.
Understanding and celebrating the knowing that our stories are our wealth informs every part of Garden life and dreaming. In today’s love note I share how my own reverence for my sacred stories shapes the design and engagement practices in the Garden. I talk about how this knowing predates the Garden and actually initiated the frequencies of possibility for the Garden to one day exist years before I even knew that a Garden would be here.
In today’s share I also weave together some clarities that came to me during our last season. The primary function of our story is to nourish ourselves first, to give us access to our own wealth, first. The most important person we share our sacred story with is ourselves. The Garden is here to support you in feeling for your deep, hidden, silenced, buried, unremembered, unmattered, lost, scattered stories that could be nourishing you, empowering you, healing you, activating more abundance for you. As a sistership, we expand the possibilities of our sacred sharing and the abundance it generates by living in continuous, intentional and loving communion with one another.
We listen, read, watch, and feel each other’s stories. We visit with and commune inside each other’s stories when we are offline living our own lives, navigating our own moments. We borrow each other’s genius when we are swirling through a difficult moment. We remember the possibilities birthed when another sister faced a similar situation and we feel into our own capacity to create a new way for ourselves—one previously unrecognizable, unknowable, until hearing someone else’s story.
We echo, recall, and piece together parts of our stories for one another, handing our brilliance back to us—oftentimes verbatim—wrapped in gold and adorned with love so that we can finally see how amazing we are. “I said that?! I don’t even remember saying that!” And then we’re all there, a chorus of emphatic cheerleaders, “YES, those are your words! We have it right here in the chat!”
So this is our way. This is how we build a world where we are seen and always seen, where we are remembered and never forgotten, erased, washed over. We thread thick, everlasting understanding, connecting dots and memories in profound ways that are accessible to us because of our commitment to deep witnessing.
I speak on the nature of everything in the Garden being an invitation—not a mandate— and how we celebrate every stage of the sacred story sharing process. For many of us, the majority of our stories are within, decipherable only to ourselves, and then only when we are really listening and wanting to be inside their depths and majesty. It is a holy and mighty thing to at last be able to admit ourselves to ourselves. The Garden is a space to be witnessed, and loved on, and celebrated as you go through the long, courageous, heart-stretching labors of discovering the bounty of your own stories. How this happens, when this happens, where this happens—this is all for you to decide and create. This is your freedom and responsibility as the holder of all your sacred stories.
The beauty of our congregation is that we are all doing this in different ways. We each become the genesis of a unique way of being with our stories. This story-creation intelligence nourishes the meta-soil of creation for the Garden, and also the many worlds we touch outside of the Garden with our stories.
I talk a bit about our low-tech, virtual world and share the very simple ways you are invited to share your stories and creations in the Garden. I also acknowledge the vital role of the witness in the sacred story sharing practice. I close out our talk by reminding those who are not yet ready to share their sacred stories with the group that being a loving witness to another sister’s share is necessary to our sistership majesty and nurtures more abundance, togetherness, and possibility for you as the witness and the one who shared her story. There is growth in all ways when we share our stories!
It’s a miracle! Revvy went back to sleep several paragraphs ago! I’ve transferred from the phone to the computer and I’m wrapping up the editing. I have so many more ideas and things that came to me to include with this share—BUT, I remember today is one day into forever. I can breathe and share more later. This sacred story sharing majesty is sooooo juicy and generative! I am excited to go and grow with you more all summer long! Please do share, share, share! Ask, reflect, open, offer, commune—however it comes to you, feel into your yes! The more we share, the more abundance we seed for ourselves and each other.
I love you!
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!
Wondering how to share your Sacred Stories with the Garden? Read: How To Share Your Stories & Creations With The Garden and begin sharing today!
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