We have many words for the life force that breathes through all of us, connecting us to one another and to all living things. We honor this life force in front of alters and in churches, in mosques and at waterfronts, as we birth our babies and write our poems. We experience this through song, the written word, the stage. We conceive our future generations and become pregnant with ideas.  We create life. Birth is a sacred act.

For more, check out an article I wrote on Creating a Sacred Space for Birth published in the January 2014 issue of Black Women Birthing Justice.