What Does it Mean to be a Woman in God's Eyes?

Dear Heavenly Father,

I deeply need and desperately want to know, What does it mean to be a woman in your eyes? I know you love me. I see your guiding hand of truth in my life. I believe in redemption and in the promises I’ve made. I feel the enabling power and grace of your son, Jesus Christ, which has lifted me far above my fears.

The scriptures teach me that to know myself, I must know God—that life eternal is to know you. How then can I know myself and receive life eternal without knowing the feminine divine?

At times, I’ve felt something intuitive inside myself. Something knowing, something foreshadowed, something both gracious and grand. When I have acted upon these feelings, miracles have happened. Reason tells me that this is my own inner feminine power.

I see in my mind’s eye a paradox of masculine and feminine energy that dance together in the heavens. This dance is a union, a woven tapestry of masculine and feminine qualities; it both lifts and settles, flows and stills, empties and fills, manifests and observes, is both progressive and grounded, and chaos and order, and ultimately is the energy that fuels the universe.

In this world, however, the masculine has ruled over the feminine. Throughout time and history, the feminine has been silenced, dismissed, and put down, resulting in the collective and individual pain of women.

I believe a harmonious balance of masculine and feminine energy is what will lay a path to Zion, where there will be one truth in Christ’s name. And that Zion will be a place where hearts and hands are knit together in unity. But for that to happen, great healing is needed.

The feminine divine has not been recognized. Attributes, such as healer, comforter, teacher, have been wrapped up in the male pronoun, “He.” The idea of a Heavenly Mother has been spoken of only in whispered tones. Is She so sacred She cannot be talked about, or is it, as I believe, that Her presence has been veiled throughout human existence because Her power has been reserved for the last days when it is needed the most, to fight the evil influences of the devil?

Father, I have my own thoughts, and feelings, and dreams, but they are mine alone. I am seeking the truth. There must be some earthly way for your words regarding a Heavenly Mother to be known. Words that can reveal the true story of the feminine identity and power. You say, “Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

On Saturday, January 17^th, I will be in the Phoenix, Arizona, temple, to offer this prayer unto you. That these things may be revealed, and that like the phoenix, women across the world will rise from the collective and individual historical ashes of pain to step into their true feminine identity and recognize our Heavenly Mother in all her glory, wisdom, and strength, and the power She has bestowed on each of Her daughters.

I have faith.

Your Daughter Sincerely,

Emily

Amen.