This Watching, This Waiting (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or Dementia)
This is a prayer to be said by the spouse or partner of someone whose Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease or dementia has progressed to the point…
The Dark Corners
Fear, sorrow and doubt cannot defeat the light of holiness and love, unless you let them. Still, they’re cunning, hiding, laying low, waiting for moments of…
Elijah, Revised
There’s a special kind of a hope, a kind of hope that opens the heart to our deepest yearning for a world of wholeness and love…
Fresh Delights
This is a short meditation about the simple beauty that surrounds us day-by-day. It ends with a reminder that the wonder and the majesty that fills…
On Waiting for an Organ Transplant, Revised
This is a prayer for those who await an organ transplant. It is revised slightly from the original. The change: adding an explicit reference to live kidney…
Complications after My Surgery
I wrote this yesterday after receiving news that a friend is now dealing with a post-surgical infection. There are seven prayers about surgery in my new…
Diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease
This is a prayer to be said upon receiving the diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. This difficult disease contains a certain element of cruelty that’s addressed head…
Tears
I spent the morning thinking about tears. Women’s tears. With a backdrop of planning a shiur to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Ami’s z”l death, I…
For the Missing, Caleb Jacoby
This is a prayer for a missing person, posted here for Caleb Jacoby. This prayer is to be said on behalf of someone whose name is known but is out of one’s…
Waiting for Fertility Test Results
This is a prayer to be said by an individual waiting for fertility test results. It is one of several prayers on pregnancy, both the joys…