In this meditation, we look at the Ner Tamid as a symbol of God’s steady presence with us, even through the dark night of our suffering, and even through “the vinegar” of our mistakes. Thorough stories and images, we explore how it would feel to open to that fierce steadfastness and to cultivate it in ourselves, towards ourselves and others, asking — if God is willing to stay with me, who am I to abandon myself?
Sources:
Exodus 27:20
Taanit 25a
Ruth 1:14 and 2:20
Mark Burrow and Jon Sweeney, Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets, p. 128
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