Dear Godde | A 14 year-old’s Prayer of Belonging with the Divine Feminine
An SGM Interview with Olivia Salmon
Prayer of Godde’s Love
Olivia Salmon is a 14-year old secondary school student who lives with her parents and brothers in_______. She enjoys……... Olivia shared her ‘Prayer of Godde’s Love’ prayer with us as part of the July 2025 Refresh theme exploring the ‘Sacred Feminine’. In this blogpost, Kathryn Overall-Cass has a conversation with Olivia about how she experiences and imagines Godde in feminine form, and how this has affected her life.
Dear Godde,
Thank you for creating me exactly as I am - with a heart full of love and a desire for connection. Help me find stories and relationships that reflect Your goodness and remind me that I am loved, whole, and enough. Give me strength to turn toward what brings me closer to You, and surround me with people who affirm my identity and faith. Let me always feel Your presence, guiding me gently back to Your love.
Amen
Olivia, thank you for sharing this beautiful prayer with us. Where did you first learn about Godde as an alternative to ‘God’ as presented in most Christian settings? What did it spark for you?
I first learnt about it through my mum. For me it sparked curiosity and I think I just realised that it felt right for me. The idea of a feminine God felt really special, as I’ve encountered some Christian environments where I was taught that there was no escape from this judging and authoritarian God and it had always made me feel really frustrated. I had this idea and mindset that God was basically an angry man. Discovering Godde opened up a more nurturing and freeing view of the divine.
What does it mean to you to relate to Godde as a feminine figure? I wonder how you imagine Her?
Relating to Godde as a feminine figure feels grounding and healing. It shifts my understanding of the divine from fear to connection, compassion, and creativity. I imagine Her as deeply nurturing, powerful in a quiet, steady way, like the earth or the ocean. I see Her in the beauty of the wildflowers and trees and different birds and other symbols.
For me it feels like she holds space rather than controls it.
What was happening for you at the time in which you wrote the Prayer of Godde’s Love?
At the time I wrote this prayer, I was craving a sense of belonging. As a queer and neurodivergent teenager, I had spent so much of my life surrounded by messages that made me feel like who I was didn’t belong. It was painful and confusing, and I often felt caught between my love for the sacred and the harm done in “God’s” name.
Writing this prayer was a way to speak directly to the Godde I still believed in: the one who made me with love and intention. It became a way to remind myself that I was not broken, not wrong, but deeply known and held.
What happens for you when you re-read your Prayer of Godde’s Love? What has been the fruit of living with this prayer?
When I re-read this prayer, I feel a sense of calm and clarity. It reminds me that I am loved as I am. Living this prayer has helped me let go of fear and lean into a more gentle, trusting relationship with Godde, which has been both healing and freeing.
Explore more contemplative articles, reflections, prayers and poems on the theme of the ‘Sacred Feminine’ in the July 2025 issue of Refresh - Journal of Contemplative Spirituality.
