It’s March – Women’s History Month. Often our celebrations focus on prominent women who made public contributions to society, women like Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Wilma Mankiller or Dolores Huerta. Of course these women and their contributions need to be remembered, but this year I invite you to consider the women in your past who deserve remembering, even for something as simple as their laundry advice.
Bake your grandma’s favorite cookies. Pull out a quilt from your cousin or a painting from an aunt. Sing the hymns Great-Grandma taught you. Gather the women and girls in your family and tell the stories – the honest stories, wise or foolish – that mark your collective history.
Name your spiritual foremothers and the lessons learned from them. How did the women you listed support you? Offer up prayers of thanksgiving for their lives and examples of faithfulness.
Throughout this Women’s History Month, may you celebrate the power of women’s nurturing strength.
This message is excerpted from “Celebrate women’s strength” by Linda Post Bushkofsky in the March 2019 Gather magazine. Today is International Women’s Day.
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