Holy Wholeness

A water droplet falls into a calm blue surface, creating circular ripples.
Psalm 85:10
“Kindness and truth have met,
Justice and peace have kissed.”*
Imagine a circle.
Pick a point on the circle,
Any point.
Call that point, HELLO.
Start at Hello and travel
Around the circle
To the point just before Hello.
Call that point, GOODBYE.
Hello and Goodbye kiss.
Mwah!
Call that kiss, PEACE.
Call the circle, SHALOM.
 
Imagine kindness,
Truth and justice and
Imagine peace.
Call this, HaSHLEIMUT.
 
Imagine Holy Wholeness.
Imagine Sacred Completion.
Imagine Eternal Connection.
Call this, GOD.
Mwah!
 

*Translation by Robert Alter

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