Aurora Magazine 2020

Aurora

Conclusion – The Audacity to Be Divine Judith Halbreich nee Mrozowski

The sun is shining—a cool breeze. The meadows filled with color and light. Today, I feel expansive, lite, and filled with life. You ask who I am. I am a hummingbird.

My rhythm is in the sound of movement. I carry within me the sound of the universe. It is not always known, but I am nurtured by the sweet life. This is the movement of in and out and rest. I have been very happy with my life. The colors of my being are more vivid and pleasing to me. These days, I live in harmony with myself and other creatures and the world around me. My being is in time and in touch with another dimension of life, as if the veil is parted and I fly in and out. Being happy and free, I live to share life with others. These days, with the music inside, as well as outside of my beingness. In my tininess, I experience being a great capacity for love and life. Because of my creatureliness, I know the truth that I am cared for and loved. Unconditionally by my creator (GOD).

I was named many years ago… The name given is, SOPHIA.

My mother wrote this meditation shortly before she died. Sophia—the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and the personification of the Hebrew, Shekinah—is the feminine dimension of God, and it might strike some as strange, even blasphemous, that Mary should associate herself with Sophia. How is it, some might ask, that she could call herself a hummingbird and talk about her “tininess” and “creatureliness” and yet, assign herself the role of wisdom

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