Intro To Song For Mother Earth

Because I was raised in both the Christian faith and indigenous tradition, the mother, and I mean the mother of Christ was also symbolic of Mother Earth. There is a song that we used to sing in praise of the black Madonna with child and as I was practicing it I realized that it is very much a song about the Mother Earth and how much she gave up to birth us all. I think she is pregnant again with all our burdens, traumas, dreams, hopes and aspirations, and when a woman is pregnant, at least in my tradition, we praise her, we celebrate her, we shower her with love and blessings and wish her a smooth and easy birth. Usually it is the joyful aunties who show up at the time of birth singing and dancing and ready to swaddle the new baby with love and feed the mother with nourishing food from the earth. 

So here is a song praising the mother. Even though it is a song about Mary mother of Jesus, it is to me a song about the mother in all of us. And so I honour the maternal energy that is labouring and invite us to become the singing doulas, the joyful aunties in the delivery room, and give courage to the birthing mother.