Mother’s Day
(Love AND baggage)
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As I reflect on this time of year and the holy space of Mother’s Day, which I used to refer to as one of the high holy days. There is so much love, nurturing, baggage, idealism, hurt, and trauma associated with mothers. I facilitate various workshops and seminars that often look at the hurts, disappointments, frustration, upsets, and grievances around our heart hurts and mothering. There is no shortage of listings for all these resentments and hurts. I am also dedicated and determined to see what worked well, what did I “get” to experience from my mother, and, at a minimum, how have I grown, improved, or thrived as a result of the mothering relationship. This may not seem important to you. I accept that. If you have a sense that this is an area of critical work for your own healing, soul’s progression, or emotional breakthrough, I encourage you into the vast arena of re-framing or at least gaining some perspective. Liberating yourself is your own responsibility and the only possible way.
Regarding my mother, Virginia, she was the full spectrum. She could get as mad as anybody I’ve ever known and as quick. She also could get over it and move right onto whatever was next as though the anger had not happened. Of course, I’ve gotten to experience this as a spectrum of bosses, teachers, friends, and bystanders over the years so that I could grow myself up in the face of this intense emotion. Mercifully, I can, at least sometimes, witness rage, outrage, enrage, and intense emotions with less anxiety, absorbing it, trying to control it, or put a silver lining around it. Momma was also as generous as can be, she worked extra hard, long days, nights, weekends to keep our family going, to grow a garden large enough to feed a community as well as stockpiled quarts and quarts, plus two chest type deep freezers full of food. She did this all the way through her life, even when we didn’t need or use it. Even when she was unable to actually, physically do all the work, she was thinking about it, planning, directing it. There are things that go to our grave with us, apparently.
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“Mother carries a lot of responsibility for us, that is ours to carry once we are not a kid anymore.”
— Martha Creek
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I have many aunts, great aunts, and motherly figures who also represent the heart of nurturing, giving, preparing, providing, and teaching me the ways to be in the world. My Aunt Bettye was one of the first to demonstrate quiet power. She argued without arguing it appeared to me. My Aunt Martha, my namesake, was a humble, servant-hearted, practical, willing being. I never heard her ask for, request, or even expect anything from anybody. She wasn’t afraid of snakes or bees. One day in the car, I bee flew in and we all went nuts, screaming, slapping, carrying on. She reached, picked up the still alive bee, and put it out the window. This fascinated me. She took a wart off my knee once by scratching it with a broom straw and having me hide the broom straw. She said when I forgot about the broom straw, the wart would be gone. It was. My aunt Billie June on her dying bed, literally, when told that my baby brother Randy had died, said in a weak, whispering, haunting kind of voice, that she “wished she was able to cook something and bring it to our family and go to the funeral home.” Again, all the way to the grave, our ways go with us. |
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What will go to your grave with you? What’s in your bones and blood you want to keep? What are you ready and determined to unload? I support you. |
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Whomever you experience as mother, now, or in the past or future, I pray that you can find some sweetness in the middle of the muck. I pray that you become and be the mother to your SELF that you’ve always dreamed of. Your heart is a mother energy for the world. I’m grateful. |
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Happy May Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and may all your minutes, days, months and years be aligned with the Holy Spirit, One Heart of God. |
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Martha Creek
502-905-0783
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“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
— James E. Faust
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“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
— Maya Angelou
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My May 2021 Special Gift for You! |
And here is my special gift to you this month.
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New Class Offering for June!
Tsunami of Grief — The Way Through
I’m facilitating a grief processing course during June on Tuesday nights at 6:30 pm Eastern Time. It seems we are in a tsunami of grief, even if we’re blocked or unconscious of it. If you could use some support, love, understanding, or want to be a space holder for humanity grieving, join in.
You are not alone in the loss, shock, despair, doubt, confusion, and grief of life's losses and changes. Join a wholehearted group for new insights into our human heartedness. Classes feature first-class Musicians, Authors, and certified Grief Specialists, End of Life Doulas, and wholehearted support for all levels and depths of grief, conscious and unconscious. (click here for details.)
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Ongoing Class Offerings and Upcoming events for 2021!
I am so excited to share these ongoing online class offerings for 2021 (click on the name of the class for details):
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Universal Christ — January through September 2021 (meets monthly every second Monday on Zoom)
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Mentoring Moments with Martha
or Martha gets to hang out with some of the coolest people on the planet!!! Please enjoy the interviews below.
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Mentoring Moments with Martha — Susan Hagar. Click here to watch the video.
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Mentoring Moments with Martha — Dr. Janine H. Burns. Click here to watch the video.
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Please consider a donation to continue the teachings of Martha Creek. Many of the classes and workshops are offered by donations only, with suggested donations amounts included in the class or workshop description. We welcome your support. |
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