May this season propel us toward acts of kindness and tikkun (repair).
Read MoreLet us seek relationship.
Let us strive for understanding.
Let us be determined to unleash
compassion again and again and again.
Pursue healing and justice
out of love for creation and all beings.
These practices will hold you
as the waves tumble.
Send forth your light and truth, they will guide me.
Psalm 43:3
Give thanks. Listen well.
Offer help. Seek guidance.
Engage with ritual. Share your blessings.
This is it.
This is all there is.
This, right now
is it.
Let me be part of the great healing.
Let me be part of the great transformation.
As we prepare to leave the week of Yesod
let us pause and give thanks
to the earth beneath our feet
that sustains us with such generous care.Pause often.
Wait.
Discernment will rise.
Pause often.
Wait.
Discernment will rise.
Let’s continue to take the longest possible view
and act together for the benefit of those who will someday call us ancestor.
We are here in this moment
because of the circumstances and choices
of our great, great, great, great, great grandparents.
Gevurah calls,
Be strong and humble
courageous and true.
I am here, wherever you are, the Infinite calls.
I am here in love.
Rise. Emerge. Draw Close.
Read MoreMake a place for great sorrows and exuberant joys to dwell together.
Read MoreIn the midst of fear,
in the swell of vengeance and rage,
even in the shattering of the sacred,
there is a place for you with me.
The Torah teaches us to be in intentional
about what we place upon our hearts
and before our eyes.
I need you, the Infinite calls.
Make a home for me through generosity and love
and together we will come into the world and shine.
All is One.
Nothing is separate.