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AdelaHope used to be a little girl with a microphone, who loved her bicycle. She is now a woman with a family, a laptop, and a ukulele, who has dreams of traveling to beautiful, interesting places. She is currently living the mom-life while she works on a Master's degree in New England

Mother, Mother, Mother

My child isn’t a baby anymore.

When he prays, he says, “Dear Father, Mother, Mother, Mother…”

Soon I will teach him to censor his prayers.

But it was after his birth that She came to me. I heard her voice on my heartbeat, smelt her fragrance in my sheets.

Her learning came when I was weak, her strength when I was tired.

She bounced my baby to sleep.

And so when I pray, I say “Oh God, Dear Father and Mother,”

Because when you pick up the phone to call home and your parents put you on speaker

You don’t ignore either of them.

I used to just tell Him,

“Oh and God? Say hi to Mother for me,” politely aware.

Was it impudence to acknowledge? Audacity to ignore? I never knew.

But now I have felt her on my bones.

So when I pray, it is mostly to Her.

I can’t help it.

My knees bend and my heart hymns

Without my beckoning

The sage Goddess, the Great Mother.

They say Her name is Wisdom. I think it is Love.

AdelaHope used to be a little girl with a microphone, who loved her bicycle. She is now a woman with a family, a laptop, and a ukulele, who has dreams of traveling to beautiful, interesting places. She is currently living the mom-life while she works on a Master's degree in New England

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  1. We are clearly taught in the scriptures to pray to God the Father. You don’t teach your children this it will turn to your condemnation.

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