09/28/2025
As we prepare to close this week’s sacred chapter, we are invited to pause not to forget the story, but to honor it.
Even when our lineage holds pain, silence, or struggle, we can choose how we carry it forward. We don’t have to repeat the story, but we can respect its roots. We can acknowledge what our mothers, grandmothers, and ancestors endured without glorifying their suffering. We can say: you should not have had to survive that, and I will do differently because of you.
Honoring the feminine line doesn’t mean we idealize the past. It means we listen with open hearts, we sift through what is ours to keep, and we let go of what was never meant to be carried. We plant new seeds in their name. We speak aloud what was once silenced. We live with more gentleness, more boundaries, more joy not despite their stories, but because we were shaped by them.
This is legacy work. Not the kind etched in marble, but the kind whispered across generations through small acts of healing. Through softness. Through truth and the courage to change the ending.
Today, let yourself feel proud not just of what you’ve uncovered, but of how you choose to move forward. That choice is the true altar. That is how we honor the women who came before us.