We think it is about meeting expectations, but maybe it is really about receiving love.
ESSAY: Hagar And The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
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 dsiappointed in ourselves, and God will still send messengers to meet us where we are. The messengers won’t be perfect. They may say the wrong
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Maybe you thnk – but the world is drowning, what right do I have to rest in this ark of comfort and love? I believe you not only have a right, but an obligation, that it is a form of activism.
ESSAY: Be The Calm Amidst The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
We enter Noah’s ark amidst the storm, experiencing the safety, the calm, the rest, the light and the care. We then consider how we might become such a sanctuary, such a light ourselves.
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As if you are a newborn baby being laid gently in the comfy padded crib prepared for you. So it was in the Garden of Eden.
ESSAY: Returning To The Garden of Trust (Parashat Breishit) Read More »
What if the Garden of Eden is a state of mind? A state of mind that we can learn to cultivate and inhabit. What if it is not God who chased us out of the garden but we who left and continue to leave? And what if we could learn to return. Photo by upenderphotography
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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.
ESSAY: It’s So Close (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh) Read More »
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.
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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.
ESSAY: Becoming A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
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.
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