Sade in “No Ordinary Love” Music Video
Lately, the weight of the world has felt extraordinarily heavy.
Between processing news of the genocide in Gaza and immigration raids in America, we are being hit with traumatic news hundreds of times a day, each small sliver of social media news snippets lodging itself in the crevices of our minds, weighing down our hearts.
Though I am an optimist, at times, I feel I am drowning in the tidal wave of devastation that pours out of my news feed.
What keeps my hope afloat however, is the community of women around me who will go into the deep end of this human experience with me, who will hold their breath and dive with me, then come up for air alongside me, carrying pearls of affirmations that heal and decorate us both.
Sisterhood is a spiritual practice.
Female friendships are one of our most important pipelines to the source of our divinity.
No matter how many times they threaten to drown our freedoms, we will remind one another that we are mermaids.
The world is heavy, but we were never meant to carry it alone.
To embody sisterhood as a spiritual practice, we must commit to becoming each other’s answered prayers.
Now is the time to hold one another’s dreams as sacred, to speak life into one another’s visions, and to nurture each other’s possibilities with the knowing that we are seeding a new Earth through the gifts we were assigned to harvest.
We will be each other’s spiritual covering, because “I pray for you” is a love language.
Regardless of spiritual origin or belief, mirroring each other’s highest selves must be a love language we become fluent in so that our voices can rise above the loudness of hate.
As we swim in the eye of the storm, we must be each other’s compass, navigating us back home to ourselves. Because the only way to transform the world is to transform ourselves. To do so, we must incubate our becoming in the shores of each other’s safety.
Breath by breath, sisterhood is a spiritual practice.
We can be each other’s air.