זֶ֣ה אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֗ה ה’ אֱלֹקיךָ֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א חָסַ֖רְתָּ דָּבָֽר
These forty years (in the desert), God was with you — you were not missing anything (Deuteronomy 2:7).
What would it feel like to inhabit such an emotional space, where we really feel we are not missing anything, that everything we need is right here? In this meditation, we explore this possibility and how feeling that “God is with us,” as the verse says, helps us touch into our own sense of wholeness and enoughness. We practice holding both our sense of lack and our sense of divine completeness at the same time, and we gradually shift to a place of “peaceful waters” in the holding.
Sources:
Deuteronomy 2:7
Psalm 23
Birkot Hashahar (morning prayers)
Psalm 34:11 (and in Birkat Hamazon, Grace after Meals)
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