Nurturing

"True Beginnings" Collage on posterboard, 22.5"x15", $125
If you are interested in purchasing this collage please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

Today is Mother's Day and we celebrate the mothers. Like
many others out there, my mother has passed on and I never
became a mother. My mother and I had a difficult relationship.
Much of what mother has come to mean for me is the re-mothering
I have done with myself and learning to jump into the arms of
the Divine Mother. Today as an act of honoring mothering I
also honor the act of self-nurturing. How do I treat myself?
With love or judgment? Compassion or criticism? Harmony or fear?

Each one of us individually are here as a wondrous manifestation
of the Divine, experiencing completely diverse experiences that
can only happen through each one of us as individual, unique
special beings. Love yourself, love God. It is quite simple. How
we respond to ourselves affects all for we are all connected and
how we feel affects the entire field.

Today, as with everyday, I will open myself to the Love of the
Divine Mother, knowing that this expression of Love is all
pervasive, all knowing, all powerful and completely unconditional.
I am absolutely safe, nurtured, and provided for as I lay cradled
in the arms of the Divine Mother.

A Feminine Aspect of the Divine

"Virgin de Guadelupe" Collection of KatherineTreffinger

This is one of the first paintings I did. It taught me
how to paint. It took me a year. It is about 5'x3'.
I have had spiritual experiences with it. When we
first went into Iraq I sat in front of it and asked the
Divine Mother to take care of the children, women
and men of Iraq. A light actually came out of the
painting.

Later when I was having a very bleak time with
money I sat before it again and lit candles. I
begged for help. I received a message. This
Message was huge for me at the time.

This message was about the Mother. The Divine
Mother. I was informed that the Mother loves
unconditionally, there is nothing we can do right
or wrong to receive this love it just is and we are
provided for unconditionally.

This was a huge revelation for me. My first question
when things weren't going well was what can I do
differently? What am I doing wrong? What needs
to change? All that needed to change was my
acceptance that I was loved and provided for
unconditionally. That day my money situation
improved.

When I say I was given a message all I mean is
I heard it in my head. I have heard messages
outside my head, but that was early on when
I needed and wanted the bells and whistles.