Topic Tags: grief

This guided meditation is designed to be part of a Yizkor cservice,

“May the love that fills our souls bring peace to our troubled minds.”

“We are Moses on the mountain begging to behold a Presence…”

“And on another side, / children whose names the world never learned, / mothers who died calling for their babies, / fathers buried beneath silence.”

“One day, maybe, the Kaddish won’t scrape my throat raw…”

“The world owed them better. / The world owed them more.”

Madeleine Sklar shares a ritual and poem for the grief of a miscarried child.

“The children of Abraham, / bowing their heads / to bury the past and join hands in grief.”

“May the One who makes peace in the heavens / Bring peace to us, to our children, / To our communities, And to this broken world.”

“How do we know what will outlive us? / We all want to be remembered our lives to count for something…”