Posts from the ‘Hopes’ category

Hopes and dreams.

Two Ravens

This is the first of what will certainly be several new pieces inspired by my renewed learning at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. The idea…

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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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