Topic Tags: illness

“Does she have unfinished business? Someone she needs to forgive her? Someone she needs to forgive?”

“I anchor myself to the beauty of the day and to love / that is the bridge between our fragile lives and eternity.”

“Why am I not able to take this world of pain away from her?”

“When my grandfather died, his body swelled again / fluid filled him, drowning him from inside.”

“For the length of a medical visit my imagination roamed the wreckage of another’s mind and hers, mine…” 

A participatory D’var Torah for Parshat Beha’alotekha

Poem of gratitude on healing from illness with the support of a partner

“Blessings cannot be static; / Blessings need to be in motion”

“Binder of wounds, / Open me to / Unplanned wonder”

“To see each member of our community / With clear eyes and an open heart”