But if we allow this part of our Sacred Myth, this part about all of it being God, all God, all the time; if we allow that to be "the greater story that is always happening," imagine how our relationship to this planet and to each other would shift.
Read moreThe Queen is in the Field
There is so much protocol to our traditional prayer, that it is nearly impossible for those not steeped in it to attempt it. We approach the Divine with the same complexity as we would having an audience with Queen Elizabeth: having to be scheduled and presenting ourselves at the right time and place, having to be announced, and then bowing properly and remembering to say "Your Majesty" the first time and "ma'am" every time after. And by the time we have made it through this trial, we can no longer remember what it is we had wanted to say, or we are too tongue-tied to say it.
Read moreShabbos-Fall in British Columbia
Everywhere in this twilight hour, people hurry, worry, think about dinner, turn on televisions. Pour wine, open books. Dogs, collared and leashed eagerly await their evening walk.
Read moreEnter Shabbat (Musical Meditation)
An improvisation to help you move from the jagged week into some spacious, giddy Shabbat consciousness. Melody by Shlomo Carlebach. Guitar played by Susie Miller. Singing by everyone at Congregation Ner Shalom last Friday, March 17, 2017.
Shabbat Shalom.
Drawing Water (from Earth, Sky and Heart)
Despite prayers for rain that begin this week, and despite all these rainmaking rituals, they didn't actually want the rain to hit while they were all sitting outside in the sukkah. So they had to struggle with what it meant to pray for something that you're not quite ready for yet.
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