The other face of God........

          It is important I think for women priests to realize God as feminine. Unfortunately at the moment femininity is confused with sexiness which seeks to tantalise, manipulate and control.

          Femininity just “is”. It isn’t manufactured and it doesn’t want to seduce or control. And yet it can lead by being always just out of reach.

          Dog-collars, on the other hand, even on dogs, are worn for the purpose of being controlled. The wearers must not run off on whims of their own.

          How do women priest wish to appear really? Initially the issue was so dodgy that they probably didn’t want to create waves. The great ship of the Church must sail on as if nothing had happened. It was safe. Female clergy even donned their male colleagues’ clothing so as not to look threatening, or offend notions of propriety.

          To get round this in later years, concerned about their image, and not wanting to look dowdy or freaks to other women, some have now taken to wearing really sexy frocks or tops, but still with the man’s collar. It’s downright creepy.  And so confused.

          I think they need to meditate on the nature of the feminine. That is the nature of God as Mother. Somehow the aspect of Mother God has been lost in the Church, so possibly the clergy could go back and take a look at the feminine preserved in modern paganism.

          Femininity is seen abundantly in Nature, and is represented traditionally by the moon. It is not threatening. It does not seek to possess or control. It is a channel of the female nature of God, generous, forgiving, loving, and mystical. Women are not derivative. They are in their very nature the other face of God.