Posts from the ‘Hopes’ category

Hopes and dreams.

This Joyous Soul

Here’s the title piece from my new book This Joyous Soul: A New Voice for Ancient Yearnings from CCAR Press. The book is a companion volume to This Grateful Heart:…

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Before the Storm: For Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence is headed the Carolina and Virginia coast. The monster storm is predicted to make landfall as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane. Before the…

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This Joyous Soul

Here’s the title piece from my forthcoming book from CCAR Press, This Joyous Soul: A New Voice for Ancient Yearnings. The book is a companion volume to This Grateful…

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Passages

A new prayer about prayer as the doorway to eternity. The prayer is structured as seven six-word meditations, followed by a prayer for a life of…

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Abundance

A new meditation on the flow of energy and abundance. The third stanza echoes Psalm 114:4, “The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep,”…

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Give Love Wings

A new prayer about the holiness of love. Give Love Wings Give your love wings To soar with the music and the prayers That dance between…

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For a Missing Pet

A prayer for a missing pet inspired by the disappearance and safe return of Merlin, the cat of friends Cantor Evan Kent and Rabbi Donald Goor.…

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For Creating a Home

This is a prayer about the spiritual aspects of creating a home. It can be used from the moment one conceives of the idea of creating…

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Art and Practice

Send a blessing. Be a blessing. These are two of the arts and practices of inspiring love and sowing peace. Here’s a new meditation on embodying…

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To Hear Me Sing

This is a prayer of yearning, yearning for healing and for the support of others along the way. To Hear Me Sing Are you awake enough…

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