There is room here in this field for everything, for the grief and the sadness, for the fear and the shame, for the urgency and the striving, and even for the skeptics who don’t believe in such a field. Noticing the space, that tolerant open space where all is welcome, becoming that space.

Come step out of the noisy world of doing and talking and accomplishing and join Yitzhak and other listeners for a stroll through a field of rest and allowing, a space of prayer and contemplation and healing.

Whereas she has been sidelined everywhere else, here, in God’s mind, she becomes the center of attention.

Let your not mattering part take in the glow of the centering divine spotlight, slowly uncurling, standing up, opening the door and claiming her space as a full equal.

We think it is about meeting expectations, but maybe it is really about receiving love.

We need not be Avraham to connect to God. We can be lonely and distraught in the desert, like Hagar, runinng away from our life. We can feel ashamed and… Read more: MEDITATION: On Hagar and The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha)