Guest Post: Finding My Heavenly Mother Project: My Mother

This post is part of the ongoing series: Finding My Heavenly Mother Project.  For more information on the project, you can click on the Finding Heavenly Mother link, at the top of the blog, or click here. This project is open to everyone interested in envisioning their Heavenly Parents as God and Goddess, and sharing their perspective on Heavenly Mother, the relationship between our Heavenly Parents and Their children, and how that relationship plays out in their own lives or thinking.  Guest Authors are welcome to submit poetry or prose items to be published here, or can submit links to items published on their own blogs. 

If you find the academic writings of another author, that are important to your fundamental understanding of our Heavenly Parents, you are invited to write a short review or response of the piece, and have that introduction to the work published here or on your own blog. 
This encouragement to share how scholarly work has impacted the reader or writer, is not to discourage sharing academic work, or things written by those who are not part of the project, but to encourage everyone to help others understand how scholarly writing impacts, or is important to, non-academics, as they understand their Heavenly Parents. If you are the author of academic work on Heavenly Mother, our Heavenly Parents, or articles related to them, we welcome submissions of your own work, either as direct links, the republishing of your work here, or an introduction (with link) to your work explaining not only the scholarly work, but also how it impacted the way you relate to our Heavenly Parents.  (This is not to discourage scholarly work, but to try to make it more accessible to those who are not academics, but who would like to understand both the scholarly work, and also how that work is applied by those writers, into their daily lives and worship.)

Curtis chose this picture because:
"I feel it's a good representation of how I see the
Mother as a kind of positive, uplifting force in all of us
who allows us to be reborn.
(Note that She is pregnant)."

My Mother
 

By Curtis V. Penfold

All things emerge from my Mother’s womb -

and I have crawled back into and left that womb many times

Rebirth is an hourly affair for me -

Occurring every time I remember Her

I have felt Her love and acceptance -

and it has changed me

I have seen a part of Her in myself -

and it has changed me.

She leaves a part of Herself in all Her daughters and sons

and seeing Her in them has changed me

I have seen Her; in the stars,

in the moon, in the mountains, in a flower

In the stillness of the night-

I heard Her voice speak to me when all was lost

And hearing Her has changed me.

One cannot come to know Her and remain the same.

I am Her child. We are Her children.

Let Her wrap Her arms around you.

Rest your head against Her bosom -

and cry as she gathers you up like a hen.

Crawl back into Her womb from which everything began -

and let Her change you

(Julia's note: I love that Curtis has envisioned a new way to think about the Atonement as something that is fundamentally part of being a Goddess, and that he gives us here a glimpse into how the role he sees for Heavenly Mother, might fit into the plan of salvation.)



Curtis serving a mission for His Father and Mother In Heaven

Curtis Penfold is a Pre-Communications student at BYU who wants to become a journalist. Originally from Springfield, IL, his family moved to Idaho Falls, ID while he was on his mission in Chile, Rancagua. He returned from his mission August 2012.