We Are the Tree of Life
Together we stand strong like a tree deeply rooted in the foundation of love We are the branches that spread out in many directions reaching for a common place We […]
Four Leaves on the Tree of Life
Bringer of stretchers, sounder of sirens, Warm us through our shock, hear us in silence. Straighten our spines, believe our grief, No matter how it knots. What is this, holder […]
Glint
Because aren’t we all /
swirling dust, flashing shards /
from a broken vessel of hope /
too vast be contained?
The Day After
October 28, 2018 First they came for the Muslims and I was not a Muslim. But I said, “Not on my watch!” Then they came for the undocumented, and my […]
Prayer for Change
God, without boundary, /
please widen our gaze.
Seek
Eheyeh asher eheyeh /
shimmers /
with the possible.
Elders’ Prayer
Let our prayers sing out from heart stream and breath flow even as our voices grow softer. Let us pray with vision even if eyesight dims. Let our prayers help […]
Estrangement Prayer
Dear God, Thank you for the many blessings in my life, all there to inspire, nurture, support, guide and lift me up from the deep, fractured roots of my biological […]
Al Het, 5780: Seeking Atonement for the Climate Crisis
You are One, the Web of Life, the Eternal, the Before and After, the Mystery and the Beyond and the Present and the Here and Now. You are Love. You […]
Climate Crisis Hoshanot with the Words of Greta Thunberg
Introduction The TorahThe Five Books of MosesThe quintessential Jewish leader who spoke face to face with God, unlike any other prophet, and who freed the people from Egypt, led them through the desert for forty years, and received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. His Hebrew name is Moshe., and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and […]
