Be-ing In Your Embrace by Bendis

I feel your breath on my skin like the gentle wind blowing in my face as I open the window to my garden in the morning.  I breathe your air, feeling it enter me, and it becomes our breath, our clean, sweet air - shared with all that is.

Dew-fresh, I am called to gaze upon your beauty. I touch your sweet petals; they unfold, soft as velvet to my touch. I am renewed with your awakening.

You surround me in vibrant color with red, yellow, purple, and blue wildflowers dancing at my feet.  Sweet and pungent, your scent drifts toward me, warming me, reminding me of loves I have known.  Memories of passion, each embrace a sacred moment with you.

My own heat rises, your sunlight streaming upon me.  With your energy pulsing through me I am transformed.  Even as I recall what is no more, what was taken from me, I think of lost love and passion stirs in me still. At once, I am lifted, seeking and yearning for embrace.  My heart, beating to your rhythm, I am reminded of the joy in life.

Your Holy Waters bring forth life. Sweet gentle stream, I lay beside you in such pleasure. I dream of loss, renewal, and then, hope.  I feel the life force of my womb, which once brought forth life. I recognize your flow in my blood, my woman's blood, now but a memory in this crone's body, strong and sure.

Suddenly I am in all waters, first riding the wave of the ocean, reveling in the speed of my body moving with the wave, then in a cascading waterfall, which showers me in newness.  I feel fresh and clean!

I shall lie on the ground and feel you, Mother.  Your cool, damp soil runs through my fingers, and I feel the moistness of your body.  I am grounded, held close in your embrace.  The grass nestles me in softness and I am strengthened by the simplicity of your care. I am healed by your love, Mother.

Seeking to pull the warmth of your golden rays to me, I reach for you in the sky and feel your heat like that of a lover, quickening my pulse.  My Yoni longs for surrender.

Earth and Water, Wind and Fire, you surround me all my days.  All that my eyes gaze upon is of you, within me and without.

Creatrix, Mother of All Life, I thank you for this experience of being in your embrace.