“A spiritual wound is a type of wound that disrupts your relationship with God or your spiritual practices." Dr. Allison Cook.
In ALSSI podcast Episode 113, I determined a spiritual wound that I have experienced personally and I believe we have collectively as conservative faith communities. Susan Hinkley and Cynthia Winward interview guest Kathryn Knight Sonntag author of The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother. In the preface, Kathryn shares “I believe asking questions and exploring possibilities are indispensable ways to show love and reverence for revealed truth.” I couldn't agree more.
On page 13, she says “My experiences and study led me to see that we have a Mother wound in our theology. This theological phenomenon is a collective wound that has affected our ability to perceive the need for the Mother as individuals. Just as unexamined pain, be it feelings of unworthiness, abandonment or anger, can keep us from a clear perspective of what’s happening inside and outside of us, our unacknowledged wound caused by separation from our spiritual Mother likewise obscures our vision of ourselves and the divine." She continues, “The ramifications of what it means to be separated from our Mother are yet to be fully uncovered and understood.”
This last statement really stood out to me. I have discovered that for me in my journey, an extension of this “mother wound” is a gender wound and a gender role wound. By this I mean with a primary focus on a male diety we are inadvertently ignoring or devaluing feminine energy which is inhibiting our understanding of ourselves, and what it means to be divinely masculine, divinely feminine or a combination of the 2. Up to this point, I have shared my thoughts on how it hurts all forms of gender expression and today, on gender roles. -Meagan Skidmore
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