I am by nature a story teller. Maybe all
women are. It is easier to hear Truth in
a story. It is easier to remember Truth
in a story. Following is an excerpt from
the upcoming book - The Power of Women.
Make a cup of tea and treat yourself to
listening to a wisdom that will lighten
the heart, enliven the bones and open your
own voice for story telling.
From the Introduction to Chapter One - Stories
of Power
“You are a Strong Woman!” I told her
as she wobbled faint of body and spirit. “Look
at me and say, “I am a Strong Woman!”
“I am a S · T · R ·
O · N · G woman, she responded deliberately
and slowly. The full moon made dappled light in
our little room in the woods.
“MorningStar, if I am a S · T ·
R · O · N · G woman, why
don’t I feel it?,” she asked, tired
and sick and weak. Just then she pushed out her
largest baby girl and held her to her warm breast.
“You were right!” she exclaimed in power,
“I am a Strong Woman!”
Women birth everywhere – in woods, in shacks,
in quaint homes and suburbs and palaces, under
trees, in taxis, and lately, in clinics and hospitals.
It is hard to birth in power without privacy and 
love and a place called home. It is hard to birth
in power if you’re scared or sick or tired.
It is hard for a midwife to help you if she is
far from help herself and especially if she doesn’t
know how to make good word medicine.
The instinctual life will create word medicine,
even if you are on an island. I’ve never
met a womyn who wouldn’t get her baby out
if she were on an island. And I don’t believe
she would flop on her back and put her feet in
the air. Though I imagine she might squat and
crawl and walk and pant and rest and hold on and
let go and weep and sing and call to the Gods,
and in the end, cry out in power… in great
triumph… in wet Bliss.
These stories are those kind of stories…
Stories of power and triumph and bliss.
MorningStar book: The Power of Women - Instinctual Birth Stories
- available Now!
Its a Midwest Book Reviewers choice for December '09. Click here to read ( click on link, then search for "Power of Women")
To review and/or buy at Mother Baby Press, visit here.
To review and/or buy at Amazon.com , click here
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Anointing of Mother Clare
On August 17, 2008 Sr. MorningStar celebrated
the tenth anniversary of her religious vows
as a Cherokee Hermitess and Catholic Mystic.
The joy was shared with community baptism,
first communion, blessings and the anointing
of Mother Clare for the Order
of Morning Star Sisters.
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Grayson
with Father Brian Toohey
