A Blessing for the Brave and Tender by Molly Remer

 

Painting by Andrea Redmond

May you be brave
in your devotion
and bold
in your noticing.
May you be audacious
in your hope
and courageous
in your listening.
May you be stubborn
in your joy
and tender
in your determination.
May you hold yourself
and others
with fierce trust
and ferocious,
wild
love.

Poem and painting from our upcoming anthology, Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of The Morrigan.

Molly Remer has been gathering the women to circle, sing, celebrate, and share since 2008. She plans and facilitates seasonal retreats and rituals, mother-daughter circles, family ceremonies, and red tent circles in rural Missouri. She is a priestess who holds MSW, M.Div, and D.Min degrees and wrote her dissertation about contemporary priestessing in the U.S. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses, original goddess sculptures, ceremony kits, mini goddesses, and more at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of Womanrunes, Earthprayer, the Goddess Devotional, Sunlight on Cedar, Whole and Holy, She Lives Her Poems, Walking with Persephone (forthcoming from Womancraft Publishing) and The Red Tent Resource Kit and she writes about thealogy, nature, practical priestessing, and the goddess at Patreon, Brigid’s Grove, Feminism and Religion, and Sage Woman Magazine.

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