HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY! - The Matriarch vs The Machine

WHEN WE ALLOW THE MACHINE TO BE THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN, WE BECOME THE CONSUMPTION OF THE MACHINE

This is the Shout Out – to stop the machine being the highest decider in human life and start controlling it to be honoring and respecting the Earth, Humans and the Natural cycles of life and birth...it's just a machine, no one is getting hurt, but us, when we don't control what we create.

Women's Work Is Never Done

A Spring Sermon for International Women’s Day — March 8, 2026

INK-Spirit

Every year International Women’s Day arrives just as the earth begins to stir again. Buds form quietly beneath the soil, the light returns earlier each morning, and the long sleep of winter begins to loosen its grip. Nature reminds us of something ancient—something we once knew deeply.

Spring is where life begins.

Across the natural world, nearly every living system starts again in spring. Seeds germinate, animals bear their young, ecosystems renew themselves. The cycle of life restarts with patience and purpose.

And if we look closely enough, we see our own reflection in that order.

Women are the first keepers of life. Through our bodies, humanity begins. Through our care, it grows. Through our guidance, it learns to walk into the world.

Yet somewhere along the way, we lost our connection to that rhythm.

Our life cycle has been forced out of alignment with nature. We bring children into the world randomly throughout the year—not because that is our natural rhythm, but because the systems around us no longer recognize nature as the clock that governs life.

Instead, another clock has taken control.

The machine.

The machine organizes our lives through schedules, markets, and endless production. It tells us when to work, when to buy, when to celebrate, and even how to raise the children we bring into the world.

Even the oldest traditions were reshaped by it.

Sacred days once tied to seasons and meaning have been transformed into marketplaces.

Christmas now sells toys through the pockets of parents.

Easter sells bunnies and chicks through the excitement of children.

Halloween sells candy through communities.

What were once spiritual markers in the human calendar have become economic engines.

The machine learned something powerful:

if it speaks to children, parents will follow.

So the machine grows stronger, while families grow more tired.

Women work harder to earn money so their children can participate in the very system that is exhausting them. Children are taught early that happiness comes from things—objects, brands, possessions—rather than from the deeper resilience that comes from purpose, effort, and community.

And slowly, without realizing it, we become servants to a system that was supposed to serve us.

But the machine is not alive.

It has no feelings.

It cannot be hurt.

It cannot love our children.

It cannot care for the future.

The machine only runs.

And when we begin to question it, those who benefit from it will say we are harming someone. They will say we are hurting the economy, hurting progress, hurting growth.

But the truth is something different.

Those who defend the machine are often blinded themselves—like the ancient image of coins placed upon the eyes in death. They see only the value of the coin, not the life that stands before them.

They are not our enemies.

They are simply trapped in the same system.

And so our strength must also be compassion.

Because we are not trying to destroy the machine.

We are reminding it of its place.

The economy was meant to support human life, not control it. Markets were meant to serve families, not shape the souls of children. Technology was meant to help us live better—not replace the rhythms that sustained humanity for thousands of years.

Women understand cycles.

We understand seasons, growth, patience, and renewal. We understand that the strongest systems are not the fastest or the loudest—they are the ones that return again and again with quiet resilience.

That is why International Women’s Day, arriving at the edge of spring, matters more than we realize.

It is not only a celebration.

It is a reminder.

A reminder that women once led the beginning of life, and we can lead the beginning again.

If we choose natural life over endless consumption…

If we choose resilience over vanity…

If we choose teaching our children strength rather than materialism…

The machine will not disappear.

It will adapt.

Because when humanity returns to nature, the machine has only two choices: follow our values, or become irrelevant.

The economy can still exist.

Work can still exist.

Technology can still exist.

But they must exist with respect for the people who create life itself.

Women were the first to start life.

Now we must be the first to start again.

And this time we must remember something our ancestors once knew:

Never let the machine lead the human race.

Let nature lead.

Let spring lead.

Let life lead.

If we still have the strength within us, we can begin again—this season, this year, this moment.

And if we cannot do it alone, we ask the men beside us to remember their own natural order too. Long before machines defined value, faith and community honored life itself.

Those truths still exist.

They are simply waiting for us to reclaim them.

So this spring, let this be our quiet revolution:

Grow naturally.

Raise children with strength and purpose.

Honor the rhythms of life again.

When we do that, the machine will learn something it has long forgotten.

It will learn to respect nature.

Because women’s work, the work of beginning life and guiding it forward—

is never done.