I’m in the midst of a 3 day seminar on “Service Learning” lead by Cathryn Berger Kaye. We’re covering a lot of ground and the entire experience might best be summarized as a “feast of inspiration.” Today we took a deeper dive into the topic of reflection. Kaye argues, persuasively (and to an admittedly sympathetic crowd), […]
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If there was no prayer
If there was no prayer There would be no pray-er There would be no Being Worth Praying To There would be no conversation No relationship or correlation No dialogue between the finite and the Infinite The broken and the Whole (or sometimes the Breaker). The soul and the Fountain from whose waters the soul first […]
Happy are those
A personal approach to Psalm 145. Ashrei yoshvei vetecha, od y’halelhu selah. All the people that have impacted my life. Blessing my children on Friday night. Coming to work at a place that I love and believe in. Different experiences I’ve had that have shaped me. Ego humbling moments when I’ve learned that the world […]
Daily Miracles
Either you believe in miracles or you don’t. If you don’t, you’ve got to be prepared to explain all of the miraculous things, small and large, that happen every day. And you have to explain them without using the words: miracle and miraculous. If you do believe in miracles then you’ve got less explaining to […]
spark, flame, fire p.2
Inside each of us there is a spark Though others may have a similar spark to our own, each spark is unique Sometimes we don’t know what our spark is, Sometimes we don’t know where it is, Sometimes we don’t know if we have it, Or if it has gone out, Sometimes others see our […]
These words P.2
Why do we read these words? To discover, to unlock, to free, to remind, to heal, to summon, to call out, to criticize, to hope, to know, to connect, to forgive, to become, to let go, to refocus, to grow, to illuminate, to ponder, to question, to learn. Why do we read these words? So […]