My Child’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
This is a difficult prayer for parents and children facing a horrible set of addictions: self-injury. This can often manifest as “cutting” or a food addiction.…
All Returns to Prayer
Here’s another meditation on prayer. It’s a prayer to help me to remember why I pray and how we pray: bowing, seeing, blessing, yearning, welcoming, summoning.…
For the People of Kansas City
A prayer for the people of Kansas City and the Jewish community after yesterday’s deadly violence targeting the Overland Park JCC and Village Shalom assisted living home. Here are…
Marvelous Gifts
For Passover, here’s a new meditation on using freedom in service to G-d and our fellow human beings while seeing the beauty and wonder around us.…
My Depression
This is a prayer to be said by someone facing the hopelessness and debilitation of depression. According to statistics, 80 percent of people facing depression are…
My Illness, My Children
Here’s a prayer to be said by an ill parent worried about how witnessing the disease will impact his or her children. A challenge in writing…
For the People of Chile
This is a prayer for the people of Chile as the effects of the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami there Saturday night continues to unfold. It’s an adaption of two…
When My Child Enlists in the IDF
Several friends have recently asked for a prayer for their kids enlisting in the IDF. This Times of Israel essay by Laura Ben-David captures both the pride and the…
For the People of Snohomish County
This is a prayer in response to the massive mudslide in Snohomish County, Washington. It’s an adaption of two prayers that I originally wrote for the people…
Redeeming My Life
This is meditation on personal freedom, recognizing that we must first forgive ourselves for our own mistakes and misdeeds before we can fully express love and…