Evening Primrose in Rain, a photo by birdyboo on Flickr.
A major factor that distinguishes women from men is that women possess the ability to bear children.
Whether a woman chooses to exercise her ability to conceive and deliver a life into this world, this capability marks her life and the purposes of all women’s life and in living,
That modern medicine has enabled females to conceive and give birth by choice, and without the physical presence of a man, the path women travel stands farther than ever from the one males trod in bringing direction and attaching meaning to our living.
While some would have us believe differently, female human beings are neither inherently better or worse, richer nor poorer than that of males. This holds true in the reverse.
A woman who chooses to enter motherhood, as it has in the past, faces an increased risk of certain diseases and illnesses. Males who enter into fatherhood face similar constraints and struggles.
At its most basic, the life of a woman is but an essentially different journey than the one males travel upon the earthly plane of life.
Difficulties set in when one gender attempts to become like the other, or the one gender grows envious of capabilities and opportunities the opposite gender possesses or are perceived to hold.
Concerning females, all women come to life and grow inside the same sex parent prior to birth. Men can connect with their same gender parent only after birth from their mother.
Thus their journey of living reflects a dimension marked with the qualities of searching, cutting away, and finding–discover.
In that females leave the prenatal, and fetal home of parent and person of the same gender in order to live on earth, the task of developing recognition and awareness of what stands within the forest, yet hidden by the trees, directs the life journey of women.
Whatever women set out to accomplish or study, the gift she bestows holds the ability for recognizing and sensing, either consciously or not, that which is hidden–the internal.
Whether it be directing a bank corporation or teaching art to the elderly, women possess the gift of looking beyond the physical and seeing the abstract and very essence of what gave rise to that which the physical eye witnesses.
The presence of a child growing within the womb of a woman does not make itself apparent, its presence known at the moment of conception.
So too all things in life rise from a seed–be it an oak tree from the acorn, an architect’s blueprints for a 100-floor sky scraper from an idea, or as with the pages of a novel and/or a painting from the depths of one’s imagination.
All humans possess the ability to nurture and cultivate into existence and physical form that, which springs from and has roots in the ethereal.
Yet it is females, women, mothers whose lives and living embody the very essence of this process which we call creation.
For this reason women must choose with care and consideration whether to exercise this right, this gift and privilege.
Doing so we must live with humility and keen awareness of what we have done in bringing new life into form.
Moreover, when the child whose life we usher into the world is the same gender as ours, female, we must live with increasing recognition that we have not only given rise to a whole new universe that walks upon this planet–a human being whose thoughts and ideas can bring joy or pain to this world and those who live in it and among us.
The birth of a daughter brings with a new life that can, if she chooses, do as we did, give rise to form out of chaos and the invisible.
She, like her mother and others before them, can also give birth.