hot pink heretic - I believe

I'm working out my faith as one who hears the MADWOMAN's call. 
This is what I believe, today.

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I am a hot pink heretic.  I worship god as the MADWOMAN in the attic.  I honor and heed the Divine according to a metaphor of female madness versus a manmade structure of order and restraint. I honor and heed Her call in my emotions, the natural world, the good work of both cultural heroes and the unsung volunteer, my own intuition and discernment, in books I read. ​

I am a hot pink heretic.  I honor and heed teachers and prophets in the myriad places they appear.  I receive their guidance in holy and secular texts, each sacred in its own way.  I observe their good work in documentaries, newsletters, and intentional communities.  I support their work with donations and sharing the good news of their good work.  I aspire to live more like they do. ​

I am a hot pink heretic.  I believe in repentance and redemption of ordinary human lives in our ordinary world.  I believe we honor the Divine best when we tend to each other, in all the ways.  I believe that “all the ways” includes immediacy of family and friend circles, the wider circles of neighborhoods and municipalities, the circles of governance and economics, the circle of our living planet. ​

I am a hot pink heretic.  I am here, with you, in a messy world where very little and very rarely is anything crystal clear, black or white, good or bad, in or out.  We are in this messy ambiguous world together.  We live with wise teachings and wise teachers who illuminate how we all might live well together.  ​

I am a hot pink heretic.  The manmade structure of order and restraint holds me against my will.  I moan and bellow for how it hurts me.  I call out to you, in hopes that you feel it, too. Do you perceive the misfit of this way of life, the rule of power, the old beliefs and practices that benefit so few and have been warned against by so many over centuries of prophecy and teachings and assassinated wise people?

I am hot pink heretic.  I hear the MADWOMAN’s call.  “Burn it down.” ​