Love Can Move Mountains

“Let her sleep
For when she wakes,
She will move mountains.”

― Napoleon Bonaparte

Another version of this quote is:    "When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” ~ Chinese proverb.   

The biggest obstacle in life can be overcome if love is stronger. The recent death of Nelson Mandela reminds us that the love of freedom and the love of his South African people allowed Nelson Mandela to survive the jail cell that blocked his freedom.  Like Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Nelson Mandela used the spiritual side of life to give him strength against the forces of hatred and aparthied.

 During the long years of separation from his family and countrymen, Mandela kept a copy of his favorite poem, “Invictus” by William Ernest Hensley, in his jail cell. He drew hope and inspiration from the final lines of the poem:

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”

But Nelson Mandela also used the power of love to overcome his mountain of despair and imprisonment. Upon his release he met and later married Graca Machel.   Together they moved mountains.

 You know other women who moved mountains. They are the women who fought for social justice, equal rights, child welfare, job discrimination, and unsafe work conditions. 

Move Mountains

This song (above) by Sarah Bella tells the story of compassionate and romantic love. So does this film about the wife of a coal miner in West Virginia. When her town and husband are becoming sick from coal mining that is  contaminating their drinking water, Patricia Bragg decides to take action.

   When you wake, are you moving mountains? It is possible if your love is powerful and fearless.