Amidst all the words of prayer on Rosh Hashanah, the wordless shofar jolts us awake our of our cognitive slumber, helping us return to a preverbal place inside us that… Read more: MEDITATION: The Visceral Experience of the Shofar (Rosh Hashanah)

You have discovered the secret of divine presence: You don’t have to travel to it. It’s always wherever you already are. God never leaves. It’s we who do.

It is here, in this moment, as it is, as we are, that we find divine presence and peace, even in the midst of distress. Wherever we are, there God is, so close.

Does the earth need you to keep it turning, does the sun need you to make it rise? We think it is all on us, but it is not. Lie down in the flow and let yourself be carried.

Lying here in the river and letting yourself be carried along, softening, dissolving, moving from solid to liquid, becoming a flow of milk and honey.

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