Type: Prayer

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Fractal of Blessings for Healing

“Blessings cannot be static; / Blessings need to be in motion”
  • by Tiferet Welch
angels, healing, illness
mountains in dark with purple sky and lines of white light scattered throughout

Be Safe: Prayer for Those Affected by Floods in California

“Be safe, / Be warm, / Be dry”
  • by Trisha Arlin
environment, natural disaster
flooded street in forest with sign that reads road closed by flood and another sign that reads causeway and another sign that reads give way

Blessing for Zoom

“Who makes it possible for us to see those we love”
  • by Jessica Moise-Grodsky
blessing, pandemic, zoom
brown skinned woman with dark hair sitting at desk looking at computer screen where an array of faces are shown as on a Zoom screen

Interpretive Third Paragraph of the Shema

“keep me open to wonder and awe so I don’t lose my way in the small places of heart and mind”
  • by Latifa Berry Kropf
shema
close up on rainbow colored tzitzit (fringes) on someone's waste

Blessing of Love Celebrating the Respect for Marriage Act

“We celebrate the triumph / Of love over hate”
  • by Hila Ratzabi
joy, LGBTIQ, LGBTQ, love, same-sex wedding, social justice
queer couple - one in a white bridal gown and one in a blue suit - embracing under a chuppah with a rabbi wearing a rainbow tallit

Prayer for the World’s Turning: When a Revolutionary Soul Dies

“because you breathed / because you dreamed”
  • by Devon Spier and Rachel Stomel whose teaching is credited in the work
grief, social justice
coral colored stone with the word remember on it with line of stones in the background in various shades of coral and beige

Prayer for Healing after Surgery

“Is it selfish of me to ask / That she not be in pain?”
  • by Betty Pollack Shapiro
family, healing, health care, surgery
closeup of white arm with an IV in it in a hospital bed with person standing near bed

Remembrance Brings Forth Life: A Kaddish for Peace

“We can envision this world and beyond as havens of peace”
  • by Marc Jacobs
grief, peace
landscape of pink-tinted mountains with person standing and sky above with one cloud on the right side

Renewing Creation Daily

“Renewal is the foundational / perpetual / potential / eternal source of metaphor”
  • by Rabbi Gila Ruskin
creation, renewal
sunrise in the background of thin stalks of plants

A Religious Naturalist Prayer for Healing

“We invoke the energy of the universe and express our gratitude for our health and wellbeing”
  • by Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, Ph.D.
healing, health care
woman's white hand outstretched in golden field of wheat with circle of light surrounding

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