Posts tagged ‘letting love in’

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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My Life in Yours

About four years ago I wrote a love song. As I strolled alone along Jerusalem’s old railway walking path, these words simply appeared. Strange. I wasn’t…

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Bind Our Hearts

Mazal Tov to my daughter Nikki Braziel-Solovy and her man Prometheus Kevin Trotsky on their engagement. This wedding day prayer alludes to the sheva brachot –…

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Sweet Cake

For Rosh Hashanah, my secret recipe for sweet cake is this song of the spiritual traveler, an extended metaphor that shimmers with hope and prayer. It’s…

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The Gifts of Our Lives

This new prayer of gratitude includes an alphabetical acrostic. Acrostics were a mainstay of Jewish liturgical poems, known as piyutim. This piece combines the acrostic with a four-part…

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Grouchy, a Love Prayer

This prayer is written to be a reminder of love when love has been temporarily forgotten. It’s to be used when kindness and care have been…

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Finding My Beshert

Here’s a new prayer for finding a life partner, a “beshert.” More people have asked me to write on this topic than all others combined. It’s been…

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Unseen Lands

Adventure. Joy. Love. Holiness. Gratitude. These are the themes tied into this short meditation on the joy and beauty of moving physically through the world and…

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Sweet Cake

This is another song of the spiritual traveler, an extended metaphor that shimmers with hope and prayer. It’s more of a yearning than a classic prayer,…

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In This Turning: A New Year’s Day Meditation

This is a New Year prayer about love. Why? Those of us who are alone yearn for a partner. Those of us in relationships need to…

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