Wisdom, Heavenly Mother and Me
“In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason; truth eternal tells me I’ve a mother there.”
“O My Father,” Eliza R. Snow
While not every faith believes in a divine feminine, there are those who believe that where there is a Heavenly Father, there is also a Heavenly Mother.
I’ve been listening to some podcasts that suggest that Wisdom and our Heavenly Mother are synonymous and that we can look at verses about wisdom to learn about our Heavenly Mother.
I have been studying Proverbs, looking for the parallels between wisdom and Heavenly Mother. For example, Proverbs 8 reveals incredible insights on womanhood, motherhood and our Heavenly Mother when we substitute “wisdom” for “Heavenly Mother.” Here’s a little bit of it:
“The LORD possessed me (wisdom/Heavenly Mother) in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him…” Proverbs 8:22-30
“For whoso findeth me (wisdom/Heavenly Mother) findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.” Proverbs 8:35
Is It Okay to Ask About Heavenly Mother?
After studying this chapter, I had several questions.
- First, is Proverbs really giving us insights on Heavenly Mother when we read about wisdom?
- Am I permitted to ask God about Heavenly Mother? Or is it off limits because there isn’t much officially revealed about Her?
- If I do have permission to ask, seek, and know, then would Father please reveal Her to me and perhaps connect me to receiving communication from Her?
Why Would I Even Need to Know About Heavenly Mother?
My purpose in learning about Heavenly Mother goes beyond curiosity. I feel that She, as a role model, could help me be a better parent to my children who struggle or are lost. Her example could also help me be a better mother to those who are faithful and doing well. As I’ve been studying Proverbs through the lens of Heavenly Mother, I feel like I’ve learned about myself, my life purpose, and my own role as a woman.
Bottom line, something is drawing me to “find her that I might be filled [with the sweet fruit of the tree of] life and to find greater favor with the Lord. (Proverbs 8:35).
Encouragement from the Father
Using my daily journaling method of writing out my prayer to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, studying scripture, and writing what I hear back from the Father, this is the reply that I received from Him today. It filled me with so much love that I cried deeply, overcome with the love my Heavenly Parents were sending me as I wrote.
I share my answer here with you, not to say it is an answer for the world. It is a personal answer to satisfy my heart. Yet, I hope that somehow in reading this you may know and experience your Heavenly Parents’ love for you as well. Perhaps you will review Proverbs on your own and receive your own personal answers about your identity, your heavenly Parents love, and your divine destiny as their child.
“Dear Marnie,
Wisdom is wisdom. It is an ability to practically apply knowledge. It is an attribute, a gift, a treasure given and (in many ways) earned by those who put forth the effort to seek it.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men (and women) liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him/her.”
James 1:5
Wisdom is a gift you have received in great measure and will continue to receive as you ask and seek it.
Your Heavenly Mother is most assuredly wise. Like wisdom, She has been with Me from the beginning. The mortal view of Heavenly Mother is distorted. It’s as far from accurate as the mountains are from the depths of the sea. Like wisdom, Heavenly Mother is like a mountain height where the air is clear, pure, and invigorating. She sees afar off with great vision and understanding of the big picture. (Proverbs 8:2)
She is beautiful, graceful and regal. She is nurturing, kind, and serene. She isn’t just filled with love, She IS Love. Love personified. And Love is wise enough to step back and let people learn, grow, experience, and find their own way. It is not that Mother forgets, but She trusts the process. She knows Her children more intimately, predictively, and prophetically than you know your children. Yet, just as you know your struggling child’s tendency to repeat patterns, She knows yours. She knows what it will take to break those patterns. She knows that it’s going to take 15 iterations of a pattern for one child and three for another.
Thus, she is patient with the first child and readying provisions for the second. For the child ready to break the cycle, the mother holds out a towel as the child emerges from the bath. Mother has clothes handy and ready for the child to move forward with life.
A mother who knows her child is returning to play in the mud will not ready the best clothes or shoes.
The child who is ready to move forward with life (to attend school or a party) will be dressed appropriately.
Who Am I?
Where are you? Who are you? You are a princess, who, having been bathed, is anointed with lavender and citrus, and robed in the finest clothes, readying for her coronation. This is how We see you.
Right now, what looks like donning old clothes to gather blackberries, or wearing rubber gloves to change your father’s Depends, or pulling your hair back in a ballcap to care for a friend’s dogs looks messy. It looks like one more loop of a cycle – one more muddy day — but it is preparing you to be a queen.
You are a princess, a child of Heavenly Parents who love you. If you could truly remember Us, you would be in awe of how much you love and know Us. The intensity of the longing to return would be crushing.
The fact is that throughout all your days you have called upon Us:
- as a 4-year-old singing “Jesus Loves Me”
- as a mid-life adult caught in unhealthy relationship patterns,
- as a woman building a beautiful life with a loving husband,
- as the daughter who cares for her elderly father and who grieves the loss of who he used to be.
Through it all, You have loved Us the best you could because Our love for you and yours for Us remains in you.
The Power of Love
Mortality’s veil has not fully covered your memory. You may not remember your Mother’s face or your Father’s embrace, but our love remains in you so strongly that you, by nature, reach out to us, seeking to know Us, and striving to keep Our commandments. You seek to recall even a flickering memory of Us.
No, our sweet child, it is not wrong to seek your Mother. How could it ever be wrong for a daughter to reach out to her Mother? How could it ever be wrong to long to call home to Her and see how She is doing? How could it be inappropriate to wish you could hug Her and feel Her comforting hand upon your brow when you are sick or sorrowful.
How, my sweet daughter, could it ever be wrong to seek Us? Today, you have found Us, and Our love has brought you to tears because while you may not have seen Our faces, you have felt Our love.
Remember that love. Carry Us with you – just as you carry your mortal mother with you. You have learned that love never dies, and the stronger it has been in one realm, the more it sustains you in the next.
Also, remember that love reaches back into former realms. Your mortal mother’s love (even though she is no longer in your dimension) sustains you and draws you forward into eternity. You are one, and We are one with you both. For where love is, We are there.
Love Gives People Space
You love your children. The impression to step back at times isn’t entirely self-preservation or only for your peace of mind. It’s also an understanding that your children will go out and play in the mud again. They aren’t ready dress in fine clothes to attend a royal party. One day – but not today.
While they’re engaging in their mud creations isn’t the time to insist they hug you. You don’t need to interrupt them and demand they wash up. You know they’ll be right back out there playing in the mud again shortly.
If they wish to toddle away from their mud pies and hug you, you will receive them with loving arms each and every time.
At some point you must let them live their lives. They aren’t toddlers anymore. They’re adults still choosing mud pies over a royal feast. Love them enough to see the Royal in them and to trust them to know when they’ve had enough. If they call out to you for assistance to change, you’ll be there. You know you will.
We love you and are with you and are helping you know when each child is ready. For one thing, they’ll be asking Us for help to change; and they’ll indicate to you that they are trying to improve. If they ask for your help, make sure any help you provide is facilitating growth, not just helping them repeat one more cycle of their unhealthy patterns. You may help them prematurely end one round of a cycle, but that just hastens another round of the cycle – unless they are calling out to Me to choose a better, cleaner life.
Seek our insights and wisdom. We know what it’s going to take. We see their hearts, and We know them. Let Us lead the way.”
– Heavenly Father, Mother and Jesus Christ
I hope this Encouragement from the Father blesses you and encourages you to learn more about your Heavenly Parents, your relationship with them, and helps you feel even a small portion of their love for you.
If this touched your heart, I hope you’ll share this post with someone who you feel needs it too. God bless!
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