Vulnerable
I was scrolling through Instagram one day recently and I saw this quote: “Love is a form of intimacy and you can’t have intimacy without vulnerability. If your past makes you avoid vulnerability, you’ll never have intimacy. Avoiding vulnerability feels like self-defense, but in the long term it’s self-harm.” It made me stop and think about a lot of things. I'm not going to be able to write about it all here today... The one question I am pondering is, "Does 'church as we know
Personal...
IN AN ENVELOPE marked: Personal God addressed me a letter. In an envelope marked: Personal I have given my answer. "Every word of one's prayer should be like a rose that is picked from a bush. One gathers rose upon rose until a bouquet is formed and can be offered to God as a beautiful blessing." Nachman of Bratzlav Mishkan T'Filah A Reform Siddur Page 47 I understand that we need community. I know that people are supposed to be there to help us and renew us as we challenge
Love never fails?
I'm on vacation. I took a week off work and the girls and I are visiting a friend we haven't seen in four years. Yesterday the girls and I went to a Goodwill and as I was wondering around I saw a wall decoration that said, "Love is patient, Love is kind, Love never fails..." It triggered me. I immediately had to stop for a bit and move my thoughts to something else. Love... it never fails? Unfortunately love does fail... Earthly love does. It hurts. I have realized that the w
Time...
Esther 4:14 or if you fail to speak up now, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from a different direction; but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows whether you didn’t come into your royal position precisely for such a time as this.” OUR ANCESTORS brought You spices and foods to gain Your favor, O God. Most precious in our day is the offering of time. accept this gift we have set aside, the sanctity of this full day. Oh! To revel in Your presence, to c
