To my daughters, Ariana, Shai, Rissa, forever gifted and divine, my friends - Deborah whose words creates and touches the divine, Jus' Tammy, who finds the divinity in spaces in everything, Krystal, Bunie, Rifka, Steph, who exemplify divinity and Jonea, always artistically divine...

My friend Deborah, posted a poem, which started me thinking about the divinity in women. I did a bit of research and was amazed that women in the so called pagan religions, had reached positions of power and were subservient to no males...Jews come close to explaining the female nature of God, but not close enough (IMHO)...Wiccans are much more in tune with the idea of the divinity in women, without the Madonna/virginal tones of other religions...

today I read that god is found in the spaces
in between people
I have been seeking the godhood
all my life
odd where it has been discovered

not in the great cathedrals
with their flying buttresses
sycophant priests and richly bejeweled splendiferous popes
not in the achingly beautiful pristine synagogues
with their endless rabbinical squabbling
and arguments over who is a Jew
not in the geometrically perfect mosques
frozen in time
lamenting their former days of glory
and scientific advancements

not in any of these holy places
where woman is representative of sin
and Eve, Mary Madelene and Lilith
are unrepentant whores and temptresses
where sex is a hidden dirty sin
its pleasures shunned
and its sacredness
denied
earmarked strictly for procreation
or places where the godhood has been sacrilegiously schizophrenically
split
and only the male nature of god
is divine
the female aspect suspect, submissive and inferior
and given insincere verbal homage
where faith in the unbelievable
is preferred over knowledge
pain and suffering
blithely explained as the human lot

I have witnessed the divinity
in the words
written by poets
art
created by artists
music
performed by musicians

today
I discovered divinity and the godhood
in spaces between me and you