Like Elijah disguised as a beggar at the door, might God not be disguised as your own inner beggar child asking for love?

This meditation explores the ve’ahvta command — love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. It considers first what it feels like… Read more: MEDITATION: To Love God and To Join God in Loving (Parashat Va’etchanan)

“God hates us,” the people say. We think we can hate ourselves with impunity. But what if learning to receive God’s love is one of our major life tasks?

God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.

Lying down beside the suffering one, stroking her hair, singing her a lullaby.

When you slept, I lay down with you. When you were cold, I was cold with you. When you had a headache, I saw and I cared.