Meggan Watterson

that out of this list that I'm compiling, how women pray when the world is on fire, there will be an action.

Like I am promising myself that because, and I want it to be when I have returned to love and I know it's the way love is asking me to move, but it was also, I was sort of being hard on myself

And thinking like, we'll do it.

Like, just do something, you know?

I totally get that.

I so get that.

Just anything, like do something, do something.

And in going back to the acts of Paul and Thecla, it's interesting because it comes from the collective.

What I can do is continue to give myself the power and the agency.

I can believe in myself.

I can believe in Mary.

I can...

you know, ground myself in that knowing that love is going to lead me.

But I also think it's not like there's going to be one person who leads and then we all follow like lemmings.

You know, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the seventh season, when Buffy goes back into that cave to the male shamans who gave her the power and she's like, uh-uh.

No, I'm going to reclaim the power, source it directly inside of myself.

This is very similar to Thekla.

When she takes back her power from all the sources that had given her her slayer power, it was this kind of these male shamans.

She called it back and then she realized that

that actually every little girl was a slayer.