"Her name is Freedom," Lem, "Her beauty is Wisdom. She will dance in the moonlight and dream of you in your absence and long for you much like the Queen does as she waits for her lover in Solomon's song.
She will prepare her garden for you (and you alone) and she will love you for lifetimes in ways, you won't even be able to name.
Choose wisely, son. Choose a woman who can truly see you and love you.
Choose strong, a woman who can stand with you, and pray for you."
She pauses to see what he is hearing; his eyes are like books to her. He is alert, thinking, engaged but still not entirely clear why she feels such importance to tell him all this now, but he can tell that on this day,
he should listen;
and so he does;
listen,
to his mother's voice,
to the dream and the clarity in her speech,
and above all,
to the certainty of her words,
as she reveals her 'womanness' list.
a woman's realness,
her hidden treasures (or demons depending on the woman) that make her who she truly is
the things that surface after you get beyond the physical and into the powerful
the things that will either build their future together, or destroy it
her nature, that's what his mother spoke of
a woman's nature
she wanted her son to fall in love with her nature
more than her beauty or her duty
her nature
"She is capable and intelligent and excellent in every way, son. She
is virtuous. And if you can find her, then you will discover something priceless." Looking down at her jewelry, she continues . . .
(c) Jamillah Warner, www.gospelnerve.com, I got the nerve to say . . .
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