tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35049564247372898282024-03-18T10:29:28.670-07:00TRISHA ARLIN: Words Of Prayer And Intention Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.comBlogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-83253497246547573902024-03-18T10:28:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:28:48.543-07:00No prayer for Purim<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTh76zVIwjJd9Bjz7WlnOTEer1sdnSXd9EAcMAMZLj2bVt9ZJQaqS_8dh-0rpUQm14BX0RXCMJvur2cXoysF6RXcJnp1NbMJRKEJpq0sWK8LSFgVlg9-GdpJorBqXvqwgVKcDcKIDm9LP3muU_qdu4gBgvXW8AECFg54xF9xXcgWecrm742syUDhyenaiy/s500/IMG_1617.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTh76zVIwjJd9Bjz7WlnOTEer1sdnSXd9EAcMAMZLj2bVt9ZJQaqS_8dh-0rpUQm14BX0RXCMJvur2cXoysF6RXcJnp1NbMJRKEJpq0sWK8LSFgVlg9-GdpJorBqXvqwgVKcDcKIDm9LP3muU_qdu4gBgvXW8AECFg54xF9xXcgWecrm742syUDhyenaiy/s320/IMG_1617.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trying to write a new prayer for Purim </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">but</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Just having a hard time</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Laughing at stupid autocrats, sex trafficking relatives, beauty contests, murderous antisemitism,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> or violent mass revenge against children. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There’s a prayer in this </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">but it offers no succor</span>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-45177475252174912152024-02-29T12:22:00.000-08:002024-03-02T20:45:23.036-08:00Be Better<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0T_DNMgJIFYO8uVfJl-MpH7qHVYSoGGwvsiNx2KzIKuvDpNZNdpM_BVpJkATTlrLwxRMz6B3GHzKeJbxN30HDELbrzhFAwQetNogJMyoqgbyIoKURU5F8TdqZ-NPZM_BigMoRNuBi6KpgSs5EXeUX1RvrzouAP-C17OIcFTAhavdMS0kK_dZvceNzaet/s275/IMG_1561.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0T_DNMgJIFYO8uVfJl-MpH7qHVYSoGGwvsiNx2KzIKuvDpNZNdpM_BVpJkATTlrLwxRMz6B3GHzKeJbxN30HDELbrzhFAwQetNogJMyoqgbyIoKURU5F8TdqZ-NPZM_BigMoRNuBi6KpgSs5EXeUX1RvrzouAP-C17OIcFTAhavdMS0kK_dZvceNzaet/s1600/IMG_1561.jpeg" width="275" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">We want to understand</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">We know you have a rationale but</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">We don’t need that explanation,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not anymore. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">We just want you to stop. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is cruel and brutal. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">There can be no justification</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">For what you are doing. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">It may no longer matter who hit who first</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or who is more sinned against than sinning. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be better. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amen</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-16986669332635916882024-02-10T13:15:00.000-08:002024-02-10T13:23:10.894-08:00Blessing for the Lunar Month of Adar<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgydw2QcsjCC4QNA3ui1-8Dz8HADS7J0-ISkNCC-ZYnlwmuUG2A5IGXh3sspVDmpANIYG9No3Syy9hLLJLJSEhkqX9GYsG-CvzQN4-FxZMsoCC6sT9XkAwf_wgA5fKIvpLtNC6G6NPcwnilA3nGWcgDXCUqitdbufO-7m8SFEEs_gNhy68Q0uc4j2JPzLRt/s1252/IMG_1599.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1252" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgydw2QcsjCC4QNA3ui1-8Dz8HADS7J0-ISkNCC-ZYnlwmuUG2A5IGXh3sspVDmpANIYG9No3Syy9hLLJLJSEhkqX9GYsG-CvzQN4-FxZMsoCC6sT9XkAwf_wgA5fKIvpLtNC6G6NPcwnilA3nGWcgDXCUqitdbufO-7m8SFEEs_gNhy68Q0uc4j2JPzLRt/s320/IMG_1599.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">It is told to us</span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">That it was on the first day of Adar </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">That Moses and God released<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ninth plague,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Darkness,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">When no one could see</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">What was right in front of them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">It is also told to us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">That though this month begins in sorrow,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">It ends in joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Purim!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">When evil people plotted our demise</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">But we killed them instead. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">I don’t see the joy in that, myself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Blessed HaMavdil,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The one who divides,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Creating holiness with separation,<br />Dividing time into months with the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Reminding us that everything waxes and wanes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Amen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-55357439416451570882024-02-01T12:24:00.000-08:002024-02-10T13:21:22.225-08:00Looking for The Holy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgesYUU7MbGn-A8wsUZkqxY6cvN3jZQJrVihdbHU-xb8pBlsrIDGKQjfTNWmunH2hguvWSB7cTf-qjKIm3L9Kuq_w_xvFoa8j18lilbGCPqPCVwdl3G1y61S0ZzlM-7mSTmGaO9lc_S6cSLVe9ymVSZRhxiMQudiwt7lg-2FvVXSOGloQCWjuM8SuApGA71/s960/IMG_1370.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="767" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgesYUU7MbGn-A8wsUZkqxY6cvN3jZQJrVihdbHU-xb8pBlsrIDGKQjfTNWmunH2hguvWSB7cTf-qjKIm3L9Kuq_w_xvFoa8j18lilbGCPqPCVwdl3G1y61S0ZzlM-7mSTmGaO9lc_S6cSLVe9ymVSZRhxiMQudiwt7lg-2FvVXSOGloQCWjuM8SuApGA71/s320/IMG_1370.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-eff195fb-7fff-ba7f-ac48-fa88279d3b72"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blessed Sacred Mystery,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We search for the holy amidst pain </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And memories of pain. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We touch the divine with our bodies. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We feel the threats of violence and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We give thanks if we are alive and whole. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bless those who are safe. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We fear for those in danger. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We mourn for those who are dead or injured.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bless those who are not safe. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must help if we can.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perhaps that is where we will find</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The holy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-3815415865668707662024-01-31T14:20:00.000-08:002024-01-31T14:20:16.715-08:00On My Toes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFju-kKVLjZNy9WBFLSZCE5xnEff4E4ORzrkrQN8pAUQlaPb6zXS1497vluThpFnEdZtz1v2A2GvUZYhyphenhyphenw4fbUPRaOlspo2OqeRcF1cjJKhYCfh8zgTDJ2-3qWVyqkrywhtdPIUxbs8-rCJBO5ozEOtgcQ0MHjZbbl0f8HoiCGgW3f2LJ-pN_A17WIj-ua/s1920/Cockrill_Up_On_Toes_2024_v2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFju-kKVLjZNy9WBFLSZCE5xnEff4E4ORzrkrQN8pAUQlaPb6zXS1497vluThpFnEdZtz1v2A2GvUZYhyphenhyphenw4fbUPRaOlspo2OqeRcF1cjJKhYCfh8zgTDJ2-3qWVyqkrywhtdPIUxbs8-rCJBO5ozEOtgcQ0MHjZbbl0f8HoiCGgW3f2LJ-pN_A17WIj-ua/s320/Cockrill_Up_On_Toes_2024_v2.jpeg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art by Mike Cockrill</div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In shul Shabbat morning,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After we consider God-ness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating light, dark, love, unity and truth,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand for the standing prayer,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Legs together </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like an angel with only one lower limb. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I sway from side to side,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seeking a chat with the Sacred Artist. </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand so I can shuckel,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rhythmic comfort movements</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Side to side</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Up and down</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knees bent. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voice chanting </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As my body prays</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like an angel dancing in a mosh pit</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hopping with God and the congregation,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acolytes to the beat of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tefillah</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(And it feels so good). </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then I drop the angel thing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And stand with legs akimbo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In perfect balance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To safely launch myself into the air three times:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecstasy! Sanctity! Blessing!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God exists forever in this moment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here I am</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In holy conversation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this is an excellent party. </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand for the need for meaning</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When there are no answers. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand for the divine Wholeness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In and around me. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand for the glory of Oneness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From generation to generation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stand for the thousands of years</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have prayed this prayer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, I don’t actually stand,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not anymore. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My knees hurt,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My back aches</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And walking is easier than standing still. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worried about what others might think,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I used to lift up my carcass anyway, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But all I could pray about was my pain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which wasn’t enough. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So now I stay in my chair,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put the book aside,o</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scootch up to the front of the seat,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sit up straight </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And pay attention hard. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B’emet</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting there</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slightly impaired,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m more aware </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of my body </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a vehicle for prayer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Than ever before. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my toes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my heart,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I declare,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy holy holy!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And let us say</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amen. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please be seated.</span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-64247953294245150492024-01-01T21:22:00.000-08:002024-01-02T09:10:43.932-08:00How? A Prayer For Activists for the New Year <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_mPYzecpeutxF-cjTxlhm8uyRmd4fKfC33NeNfQ77nNRudZ9Y0T9uC2o5hirCGgfqdnfgSIf3BJ88VhWTA_Y2OrubgHwzlad3ES470ygr-adANDn2orOqCPGdCLP8vkl1yu9gKpLXymA65PoFad_tE-xc5bAFnu90lvkT5K4fom53OhfMo00skXpKL_f/s1920/Cockrill_Red_Hand_%202023_9646%20copy%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_mPYzecpeutxF-cjTxlhm8uyRmd4fKfC33NeNfQ77nNRudZ9Y0T9uC2o5hirCGgfqdnfgSIf3BJ88VhWTA_Y2OrubgHwzlad3ES470ygr-adANDn2orOqCPGdCLP8vkl1yu9gKpLXymA65PoFad_tE-xc5bAFnu90lvkT5K4fom53OhfMo00skXpKL_f/s320/Cockrill_Red_Hand_%202023_9646%20copy%202.jpeg" width="268" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Art by Mike Cockrill</span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">This new year is going to be</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Difficult to witness and</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">End-of-the-world frightening,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">With cruel enemies</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lacking nuance and compassion. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can this be? </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the brutality and the pain,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the illness and the injuries,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the boredom and the lack of sleep,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the outrage and the frustration,</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">You sometimes will want to be happy. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div><span style="font-size: large;">How does that work ? </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">But won’t feeling good be obscene? </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Simple pleasures, selfish?</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Should we eat well if others starve?</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">No more being silly! </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Can we still fall in love?</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">How did this happen?</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forgive the old for leaving you this mess. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Know that they were left</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their own mess by their elders. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which they tried to repair in their time. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sorry, but it’s your turn. </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;">How will you be kind?</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Bless HaMavdil, Creator of Time,</span><span> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">As we gird our loins</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">For the battles and horrors to come. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Help us remember to enjoy our lives</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">And make sure we get enough sleep,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t ask me how. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Happy New Year</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Amen</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-22029704141514506622023-12-31T13:23:00.000-08:002023-12-31T13:44:48.750-08:00Blessings for the New Year<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYA985fjTtN9ACZavd9Gd8eI9Xp01_LcTYPVxhJunAMSoCAPkyg06PxPMcWKly5mVH_BG0xAgKoHkPj2auOPEBvHoO88WD5rK1ZA8kJ2IxxNWmqqYMmHBhnv3rQzxEqeE1GEZULY8EyvApakvr8XwjwleR4C_HAtpKKiHqa6Yv8YACDEEb9A8BkBg-Qv6/s704/IMG_1585.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="704" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYA985fjTtN9ACZavd9Gd8eI9Xp01_LcTYPVxhJunAMSoCAPkyg06PxPMcWKly5mVH_BG0xAgKoHkPj2auOPEBvHoO88WD5rK1ZA8kJ2IxxNWmqqYMmHBhnv3rQzxEqeE1GEZULY8EyvApakvr8XwjwleR4C_HAtpKKiHqa6Yv8YACDEEb9A8BkBg-Qv6/s320/IMG_1585.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">May we have a knowing of holy wholeness, and may it know us.</span></p><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">May we understand that we are part of the One and we are complete as we are. </span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">May our beginnings and our ends touch and may we, and all the world, know peace. </span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Amen</span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></dd><dd style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: unset; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></dd>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-29088779006300944062023-12-18T12:30:00.000-08:002023-12-18T14:54:59.237-08:00What If We Listen?<p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a 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style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Anger is noisy. </span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div>So is revenge, resentment, rage. </div><div><br /></div><div>So</div><div><br /></div><div>What happens if we sit and listen</div><div>Not to our first reactions </div><div></div><div>Not to our friends </div><div>Not to our leaders</div><div>Not to our screens</div><div>Not to any of the persistent din</div><div>But instead </div><div>What happens if we decide instead </div><div>To humbly listen to a different kind of noise,</div><div>To the unsolicited ambient sounds?</div><div><br /></div><div>First perhaps we hear the birds </div><div>Or the outside traffic then</div><div>Children playing,</div><div>Dogs barking,</div><div>The creaks in our walls </div><div>A distant radio</div><div>A honking horn</div><div>The wind</div><div>The rain</div><div>Our breaths. Our lives. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then perhaps, </div><div>if we listen without judgement or preference,</div><div>We might hear the noise in the quiet </div><div>Underneath the obvious:</div><div>The still small voices,</div><div>The mysteries </div><div>Of pain and love</div><div>Of nuance and consideration </div><div>Of hard decisions </div><div>Of quiet covenants of obligation and doubt. </div><div><br /></div><div>And then beneath even those expressions, </div><div>We hear our own heartbeats and many more,</div><div>Of so many different people and</div><div>Of so many other species,</div><div>All of us</div><div>Breathing, eating, making love,</div><div>Hoping to have fun and survive. </div><div>We are all companions in the big mysteries</div><div>On our one home, our noisy planet. </div><div>Can we hear all that life?</div><div><br /></div><div>And if we can, </div><div><br /></div><div>How can we dare to interrupt that music?</div><div><br /></div><div>Amen</div></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-23860548787693348962023-11-20T14:27:00.000-08:002023-11-20T14:49:55.763-08:00My Gratitude <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jTOUqyMUyDCKyfD3iOkwnYkKn4iFrGWVgqqnIGeS70rzN9LjPa0FFMG8Vcv_dRvtzWRBy0Vxb1GzHQXKnrKcT2evNotg4LH96IqOv3tplzujr6pFXN_lJqA2EwIyVdI14y-_akw2zqGlyGfXEAdKKSWxzpBzRC4oREmsvkLaE47HnYw69QyyDQlpgHrt/s1500/IMG_1471.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1500" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jTOUqyMUyDCKyfD3iOkwnYkKn4iFrGWVgqqnIGeS70rzN9LjPa0FFMG8Vcv_dRvtzWRBy0Vxb1GzHQXKnrKcT2evNotg4LH96IqOv3tplzujr6pFXN_lJqA2EwIyVdI14y-_akw2zqGlyGfXEAdKKSWxzpBzRC4oREmsvkLaE47HnYw69QyyDQlpgHrt/s320/IMG_1471.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every Shabbat</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I attend services</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And almost every single time </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are asked by the rabbi,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What are you grateful for?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(A reasonable question)</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And a long list from the congregation rolls out</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of family members</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And pets</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And jobs and vacations</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And operations and recoveries</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And clergy and social justice leaders</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And battles fought and won.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am also grateful</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the usual stuff</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I hate this question.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I really hate this question.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am annoyed not grateful.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am annoyed and not grateful on a daily basis,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am annoyed and not grateful when I wake up in the morning</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and annoyed and not grateful when I go to sleep at night.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This world is a terrible, cruel and stupid place and </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am angry!</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Modeh Ani? Hell no.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bedtime Shma? I forgive no one!</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am angry</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and disputatious</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and frustrated</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the people who deserve my anger and resistance</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do not know or care that I exist!</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I want it all to go away</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I’m ashamed at how little effort it takes</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To ignore the unpleasant </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And do nothing. </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m so angry at myself.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, no gratitude today from me.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And anyway,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The things that I am grateful for </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That you are so curious about,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do I have to announce them?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You want me to spread my gratitude all around like manure</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this garden of good vibes?</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feh.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And please, don’t tell me yours,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am neither interested nor moved by your gratitude!</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Except of course I am,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because I love you and<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I like it when people are happy.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I like it when people share their happiness,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But not on demand!</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And not every week.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not now,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not this week.<br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My gratitude is not for tourists.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorry.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #454e57; font-family: "helvetica neue", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Holy Wholeness,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thank you for listening.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Amen</p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-61103014735567208812023-10-21T08:50:00.002-07:002023-11-14T14:04:33.639-08:00Sitting Shiva For Vivian<p> </p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyZ_zfnBqNHfBZ6jSSiOmj17c1-6Zfn_PR6EQDFNV2qTGoS7VYppU_3VdT_xX6rzkLmojO45qWlhe-b_WbfvTt7hXwwedDtyHQYGxHdZWDWnO5ZcBo_AdRPpVszmhYbcBBsAkJ_v2hPHUgZi6CwFX360ya2lMsdK1CjxSKv-E5ywpDjfSubgIyCS1Oqeq/s810/IMG_1524.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyZ_zfnBqNHfBZ6jSSiOmj17c1-6Zfn_PR6EQDFNV2qTGoS7VYppU_3VdT_xX6rzkLmojO45qWlhe-b_WbfvTt7hXwwedDtyHQYGxHdZWDWnO5ZcBo_AdRPpVszmhYbcBBsAkJ_v2hPHUgZi6CwFX360ya2lMsdK1CjxSKv-E5ywpDjfSubgIyCS1Oqeq/s320/IMG_1524.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy Wholeness,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m sitting shiva for Vivian Silver</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peace Activist, Humanitarian, Progressive. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">74. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She reached out</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And helped when help was needed:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jews and Palestinians. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn’t know her but I did,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A good person, a hero. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.666667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vivian wasn’t asked for her resume</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before they killed her. </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her honor,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will try to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">hug nuance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And speak up against hate and intransigence </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And look to understand the reasons and solutions </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And try to feel all the pain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of the perpetrators as well as the victims. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone may despise us but that’s the gig. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Screw it,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do good anyway,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Vivian</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-19473479426237222472023-10-20T16:12:00.008-07:002023-10-25T16:42:24.940-07:00Beloved Of The Soul (Yedid Nefesh)<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyObBUqSrhSTaOjBGBZZfYUyQwWuctkrDHFwDZLaWMk-HftEImDGO-XNdllodBDF6fGafqxxiCHvMG7qjqyrNu-DlzjrnlfoxS6m1yHi5MAuS6A1ANC3AYVcbI5luOi_PR7ZuDVAaX0OJmtlPhURHQlL7PJmFe9cX-0VBSk5slC7tHJdtjMmqLlUEI1Cc/s1059/IMG_1235.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="1059" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyObBUqSrhSTaOjBGBZZfYUyQwWuctkrDHFwDZLaWMk-HftEImDGO-XNdllodBDF6fGafqxxiCHvMG7qjqyrNu-DlzjrnlfoxS6m1yHi5MAuS6A1ANC3AYVcbI5luOi_PR7ZuDVAaX0OJmtlPhURHQlL7PJmFe9cX-0VBSk5slC7tHJdtjMmqLlUEI1Cc/s320/IMG_1235.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Compassionate Oneness,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Imagine us all,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sweet as honey,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kind and loving.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Radiant with life,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pure at the start. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then we forget and yearn</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">For</span><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pleasant safety. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">But truth is always best: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Art and argument, obligation and doubt, </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kindness and cruelty, grief and ecstasy. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">We could be splendid.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Show us Your love!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Keep us sane</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">And help us to remember</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our beautiful souls. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amen</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-1380035597257611282023-10-15T09:54:00.007-07:002023-10-16T21:05:50.640-07:00I Can’t Sleep<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtu9o5NAKme25OuKwW-AOjhm7qC03cMCRZnER0XTBFVXK0fl-2NdiK_zMYKMNWmaVAdqJ7GmsGvC4yyoySmHkJ7hB9VVJWoFr9bzP9ouHtSynOy9eVB_pMEjjcufHmWYvRIIe7H61HjIJGYhY67uUBYaVdTmT4MFX8CAzFwpDeZ04ESg_m-4v8eVxyreA6/s960/IMG_1527.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtu9o5NAKme25OuKwW-AOjhm7qC03cMCRZnER0XTBFVXK0fl-2NdiK_zMYKMNWmaVAdqJ7GmsGvC4yyoySmHkJ7hB9VVJWoFr9bzP9ouHtSynOy9eVB_pMEjjcufHmWYvRIIe7H61HjIJGYhY67uUBYaVdTmT4MFX8CAzFwpDeZ04ESg_m-4v8eVxyreA6/s320/IMG_1527.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-1f9332a4-3bce-10fb-3e43-9df4d67940c5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can’t sleep </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Neither can I</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me neither</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I understand </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Same</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It happens </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a sign of stress</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me, too</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Too many feelings</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I see you</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shamati</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sending love</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m with you</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Call or text anytime </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">With you in anguish</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can’t stop thinking</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me, too</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can I help</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can I make it stop</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why are people so cruel</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why are people so stupid</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It happens</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">No sleep </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not now</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not tonight</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me, too</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-13093301676668215562023-10-10T14:40:00.003-07:002023-10-10T14:41:13.355-07:00A Prayer For a Difficult Day<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQn_CZqSbAEO2iEA_ltEc2vjPrplYvUGHTO0K7_JTJRIFiAx_xwJ0pR1c-1cBzhwjomACAbwzhAPfd1gTsKPdtRPQKSWKFpo8fTRZv7Pz3JCgiwkkxtfUS_2htv3H7519tsj5KCxMSK9tPUtaMCYQuSa3S4cW1p1UsDhhyphenhyphen1xUhgOYB5iX1HMTjVwlaZNA/s1024/IMG_0854.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="694" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQn_CZqSbAEO2iEA_ltEc2vjPrplYvUGHTO0K7_JTJRIFiAx_xwJ0pR1c-1cBzhwjomACAbwzhAPfd1gTsKPdtRPQKSWKFpo8fTRZv7Pz3JCgiwkkxtfUS_2htv3H7519tsj5KCxMSK9tPUtaMCYQuSa3S4cW1p1UsDhhyphenhyphen1xUhgOYB5iX1HMTjVwlaZNA/s320/IMG_0854.jpeg" width="217" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">Blessed Yah, Creator, Created, Creating...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On this day of mourning,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We pray for peace and love,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For ourselves and the world,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even if only for one day:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of anger, we choose kindness.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of revenge, we choose justice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of resentment, we choose empathy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of work, we choose rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of ideology, we choose compromise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of destruction, we choose community.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of fear, we choose endurance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of invective, we choose prayer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of violence, we choose peace. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of hate, we choose love.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even if only for one day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Amen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-15305560235539595672023-09-23T17:30:00.004-07:002023-09-23T20:25:18.704-07:00Blessing For Those Feeling Good as a Nice Change<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qepwbLslP8nlM7jhQzG619OGxL-HqMMBedt3hzcBomnn16oEYc4sEbT3ZF80J9vGZXz1Evp6nL-HLmHR8aFL7xCm75oGdLomaulzPwa2OvX4y0ZVqLWfD3ajwIIzEtIiM8idLCWuIqnqr7iBk4SSHKvQG1QEezuvSV35LuUN-Tby88aHeroeDl93P9u1/s1200/IMG_0719.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1200" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qepwbLslP8nlM7jhQzG619OGxL-HqMMBedt3hzcBomnn16oEYc4sEbT3ZF80J9vGZXz1Evp6nL-HLmHR8aFL7xCm75oGdLomaulzPwa2OvX4y0ZVqLWfD3ajwIIzEtIiM8idLCWuIqnqr7iBk4SSHKvQG1QEezuvSV35LuUN-Tby88aHeroeDl93P9u1/s320/IMG_0719.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by Carolyn Hall</div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">One-ness,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">I give thanks for this burst of wellbeing in my body/mind/heart!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May it grow and endure </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And come back if it goes away for a while. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Amen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-74923444109211969772023-09-13T12:59:00.006-07:002023-09-13T13:09:54.429-07:00During These Days<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mGbtU_dFNW0Ne-f1_4pbVgxoTC_4wwONhMSe-UNxn79mLUDnmDZMrxHrerj1wQGNzTGqbH6Wn3_v2jojJQIFLeK8wGCQYRA9djesja9fYmNIR1r5T-xD-kFMp0T4KESjJ9rBwXA4UmVo6bQz-QzTxIPNkMDx7wG6SXz0hPfQxcUJ7Pa4e6V8n2z_1PMo/s1348/IMG_0658.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1073" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mGbtU_dFNW0Ne-f1_4pbVgxoTC_4wwONhMSe-UNxn79mLUDnmDZMrxHrerj1wQGNzTGqbH6Wn3_v2jojJQIFLeK8wGCQYRA9djesja9fYmNIR1r5T-xD-kFMp0T4KESjJ9rBwXA4UmVo6bQz-QzTxIPNkMDx7wG6SXz0hPfQxcUJ7Pa4e6V8n2z_1PMo/s320/IMG_0658.jpeg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Bless these holy days of searching</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">That <span>enable us to ask so many fruitful questions, </span></span></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Sanctifying our awareness of our creative Jewish contradictions,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">No matter what the traditional liturgy tells us </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">We are not a chosen people. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">We are the people who choose. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And we choose to make holy our obligations and our doubts,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Our regrets and our commitments,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And our guilt and our innocence. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">During these days of searching we ask, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Where are you?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Here I am, today. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Amen</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-14217067932665882382023-09-08T09:58:00.005-07:002023-09-13T12:47:39.257-07:00Lecha Dodi Kavannah <p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2F7yCI4KRP-oPmWZfjha14xuOGn0yPiP3ZKTFohX5srTNfbgrzC0MSbXynF1FjjlagvyibCoLKaBUfR3N3v-EVi3P9PUimS7yockONH6MHaiR7HhTfgdeX3heQb4DjjHVxYJ5xCYHr5UA0xznTuQC8tF_ff38FyBYdUbXbFPzmkUOhVckZ5PGeSuSwt-u/s960/IMG_0898.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2F7yCI4KRP-oPmWZfjha14xuOGn0yPiP3ZKTFohX5srTNfbgrzC0MSbXynF1FjjlagvyibCoLKaBUfR3N3v-EVi3P9PUimS7yockONH6MHaiR7HhTfgdeX3heQb4DjjHVxYJ5xCYHr5UA0xznTuQC8tF_ff38FyBYdUbXbFPzmkUOhVckZ5PGeSuSwt-u/s320/IMG_0898.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-25ab0f37-75b9-eef4-01c0-68323f380585" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Come, my friends, to meet Shabbat. </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-25ab0f37-75b9-eef4-01c0-68323f380585" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every week I step out of mundane time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be present to what I’m actually doing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of dwelling on what I’ve done before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or what I might do next</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or what has or will be done to me or around me,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shabbat. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter how content, miserable or stimulated I am,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time I am fully inside the depth of a feeling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is truly of now,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aware in compassion, truth and presence,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In true connection, then </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is Shabbat. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I am one with the bride:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hopeful, excited, happy,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meeting my friends,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My beloveds,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New every week:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Shabbat. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lecha Dodi!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-26708956517161980082023-08-20T14:39:00.004-07:002023-08-20T15:09:33.922-07:00November Prayer Writing Classes At Ritualwell!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRBZRrgjRdN0BsIT70R0ZnP0CHGkuK-X6d6cEhn6cepPk33PkJ2qFrvmJlQoXbCTBzoASE_MA-uZSs4jWaCeMChFozAGeaS03-EoggXV9NVB1mvKNobfmQz0JXEnSqYOBDjkD6EuC2Xb4qqfXTdgw6TfFGTUpl08q8oymV4pT2bYF5517RspLYeO8uAOc/s1080/TrishaArlin_Kaddish_NovDec2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRBZRrgjRdN0BsIT70R0ZnP0CHGkuK-X6d6cEhn6cepPk33PkJ2qFrvmJlQoXbCTBzoASE_MA-uZSs4jWaCeMChFozAGeaS03-EoggXV9NVB1mvKNobfmQz0JXEnSqYOBDjkD6EuC2Xb4qqfXTdgw6TfFGTUpl08q8oymV4pT2bYF5517RspLYeO8uAOc/s320/TrishaArlin_Kaddish_NovDec2023.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Join me in November for these prayer writing classes at </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Ritualwell!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQAMoA39YwL414Hd5yzyvBT480HPi7v0U0V7vfOU-i9iZDUHhkrhpeO5PyNykzaF87XRDGTEygaVMwVb6UtZQGY3d0HTpcX6WaFMCCkpqCb8rM1EzPxPbDxn5rQp-icphBTDIDs-P-xr3eZPyZvtQw6osw14ehxFjEzeqgnKqn2dk93GotJpsR8rfh2gN/s1080/TrishaArlin_WritingOurAgingSelves_Nov2023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQAMoA39YwL414Hd5yzyvBT480HPi7v0U0V7vfOU-i9iZDUHhkrhpeO5PyNykzaF87XRDGTEygaVMwVb6UtZQGY3d0HTpcX6WaFMCCkpqCb8rM1EzPxPbDxn5rQp-icphBTDIDs-P-xr3eZPyZvtQw6osw14ehxFjEzeqgnKqn2dk93GotJpsR8rfh2gN/s320/TrishaArlin_WritingOurAgingSelves_Nov2023.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-63502145903332443852023-07-27T16:17:00.011-07:002023-07-29T14:19:38.542-07:00Enough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SyDMrOyWWTUv7ZZz1ZP1DoznGEhCNVAjxzpSWU0-T_5S3hCIxzKlCamVEDJ193IM3CMO-3sDzt2t-yu22vicq0x7yvmxE1JfKmLvWIqmK7n8X_AtHsYfsbrOoSwTIFXE80vdFX3MiKCNzy9hvRpZmyo7RriELxmbB_l0d-ba_Pcg1HVPw9-ZzTHXd1-K/s4032/Cockrill_Ink_Bubbles_2461%20copy.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SyDMrOyWWTUv7ZZz1ZP1DoznGEhCNVAjxzpSWU0-T_5S3hCIxzKlCamVEDJ193IM3CMO-3sDzt2t-yu22vicq0x7yvmxE1JfKmLvWIqmK7n8X_AtHsYfsbrOoSwTIFXE80vdFX3MiKCNzy9hvRpZmyo7RriELxmbB_l0d-ba_Pcg1HVPw9-ZzTHXd1-K/s320/Cockrill_Ink_Bubbles_2461%20copy.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Art by Mike Cockrill</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div><br /></div><div>We pray </div><div>For our safety and health</div><div>But we fear for us all. </div><div><br /></div><div>We pray </div><div>That it is not too late</div><div>But we fear that it is. </div><div><br /></div><div>We pray</div><div>For common sense</div><div>But we fear the fanatics. </div><div><br /></div><div>Blessed Holy Wholeness:</div><div><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">May we not be afraid</span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">To act big</span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And save the world. </span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">May we also learn </span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">To act small</span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And save each other. </span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">May we also remember</span><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">To transcend despair </span><br /><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"><div>And love ourselves enough. </div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Amen</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-89563368652584506802023-07-13T12:47:00.005-07:002023-07-13T19:43:20.439-07:00Blessings For Striking Workers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RYhZPTBOiw9hJDZ7J3Xi6eMHgSOes3RrJ2tWG7xnoYSHuhSNZwctH3EmwYBoc8_uMmSJnh9YCmq-S0NfwC-Q4QnA6C7Cnxb3qfgx-xFa1BjKiJvaWlg_ewvPbKRqV2a-9glY1TCI5Uum9p0dL3gtdyNadhY1z75VIPCQaUz6a2S9czpb6sQw3AXqh6Py/s1440/IMG_1402.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RYhZPTBOiw9hJDZ7J3Xi6eMHgSOes3RrJ2tWG7xnoYSHuhSNZwctH3EmwYBoc8_uMmSJnh9YCmq-S0NfwC-Q4QnA6C7Cnxb3qfgx-xFa1BjKiJvaWlg_ewvPbKRqV2a-9glY1TCI5Uum9p0dL3gtdyNadhY1z75VIPCQaUz6a2S9czpb6sQw3AXqh6Py/s320/IMG_1402.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Bless these workers:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who feed us,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who keep us safe,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who heal us,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who sustain us,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who entertain us,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The one who create for us</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who do the dirty work for us</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The ones who are us!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And the ones who put themselves in danger, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">whether out of choice or out of necessity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Bless you:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you be paid fairly for your labor,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you find pleasure in your work,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you be appreciated for your sacrifices,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you have room to recover yourselves,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you not be sickened or injured in your jobs,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you organize yourselves successfully in unions,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">May you have time for spiritual exploration </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">And may you all get enough of what you need, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">whatever that looks like for each one of you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Amen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-71556184355959010002023-07-12T22:24:00.006-07:002023-07-12T22:30:37.827-07:00All This Power<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0ySP8HPqAkN63gnqZPlC7vBZ0ABuvGmkskY3tQ0XJtA3dlegXTFrDIa_Ry8xEkoRQkQjkM91ifSKg8OFpaQuCEAwWA23OfSC5j9L4F3O37QsR2oCsnGoQJ07tk7Rlwo0WHdFqeBdP6PoaUAl0uTWT6zlxdf7yeiYnqGwUwgDo3W-Ne1P3vvLhfDWwWHV/s594/IMG_0451.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="594" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0ySP8HPqAkN63gnqZPlC7vBZ0ABuvGmkskY3tQ0XJtA3dlegXTFrDIa_Ry8xEkoRQkQjkM91ifSKg8OFpaQuCEAwWA23OfSC5j9L4F3O37QsR2oCsnGoQJ07tk7Rlwo0WHdFqeBdP6PoaUAl0uTWT6zlxdf7yeiYnqGwUwgDo3W-Ne1P3vvLhfDWwWHV/s320/IMG_0451.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this power</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That we have worshipped and obeyed</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And prayed to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For thousands of years,</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The power to redeem and forgive, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create and sustain,</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comfort and heal,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember and bless,</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this power is ours to assign </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With fear or with familiarity</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And ours to wield,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With greed or with generosity.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or perhaps it belongs to no one</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the dew on the fields,</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the winds that blow</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the rains that fall. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amen. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-21890279172696977802023-07-01T15:39:00.004-07:002023-07-14T12:40:25.173-07:00Moments of Gevurah<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1lHZMCU3paNCG7AP2IaF0XLvvsN-_WwZdZENLU5WOR1I3T_Axxkl6ytNGXzVQZI6NoZaEf4PckxyNLnY0YHI_JfMvmlSJfyLEQOJDIwxrsGBYftVKVO9L2PDzCWFFj_2F9GInHPs-3zUq2PytHT5P3WFVvYpyfaOb69fNeQrwd_kgdMhlAXjlWw9OgJvk/s900/IMG_1440.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="693" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1lHZMCU3paNCG7AP2IaF0XLvvsN-_WwZdZENLU5WOR1I3T_Axxkl6ytNGXzVQZI6NoZaEf4PckxyNLnY0YHI_JfMvmlSJfyLEQOJDIwxrsGBYftVKVO9L2PDzCWFFj_2F9GInHPs-3zUq2PytHT5P3WFVvYpyfaOb69fNeQrwd_kgdMhlAXjlWw9OgJvk/s320/IMG_1440.jpeg" width="246" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-501a9a4a-55ea-90a0-9877-8df0e9ff7bdb" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time I step out of mundane time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be present to what I’m actually doing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of dwelling on what I’ve done before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or what I might do next</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or what has or will be done to me or around me,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter how content, miserable or stimulated I am,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time I am fully inside the depth of a feeling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is truly of now,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aware in compassion, truth and presence, then </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am raised from the dead. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is my only super power,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These occasional moments of Holy Wholeness </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scattered amongst the usual blah</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Until I die</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And there will be no raising me then,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m pretty sure. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-65251070743633955212023-06-07T21:18:00.009-07:002023-06-09T08:52:54.245-07:00Prayer For Breathing <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6o67XHYgs8AemtF_GKSRqi16JceBE44dV4Heclf_Muc_zZfs8sqs9e-25M3cEMWFCu8CQcrrUWM6MOhLwWtyL8qdCwptxyssNhBAUsRmLPFhLYmqwD9LrcVQ5nn2b3jtXzkKBDNEcowRH8ieUTXF9LOFWPEhUWXjXbYUj6mO5o1mXDtVwfnNeTFAIw/s1440/IMG_1424.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1440" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6o67XHYgs8AemtF_GKSRqi16JceBE44dV4Heclf_Muc_zZfs8sqs9e-25M3cEMWFCu8CQcrrUWM6MOhLwWtyL8qdCwptxyssNhBAUsRmLPFhLYmqwD9LrcVQ5nn2b3jtXzkKBDNEcowRH8ieUTXF9LOFWPEhUWXjXbYUj6mO5o1mXDtVwfnNeTFAIw/s320/IMG_1424.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by Debra Nussbaum Cohen</div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Blessed Soul of the Universe,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Breathing us in and breathing us out:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">May our breaths continue</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And our health and the health of all</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Be preserved</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In this time of haze, fire and climate disaster.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Holy Wholeness,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Each breath is a prayer:</span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">We take note of those</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Who are vulnerable due to illness or age</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Or those who must work or live outside </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And we pray for their safety.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Fierce Mystery,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Breathing you in and breathing you out:</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Under these circumstances</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We are especially mindful of</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our obligation to<i> tikkun olam,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To save our planet and ourselves .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Amen</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-43819711289023056992023-05-09T07:32:00.004-07:002023-05-09T07:38:26.641-07:00Our History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUwsJhWfUFcY9AIO2WlXbkRyAx6inL5zW7MDK1GGM8Srh4cxKYhwON6GYfE9Gef1sTajdbEiu-uLdOpA-RKlqzqwU2Dv1F-3mzxRCWbpNh0_PQBpefaXxi5ImKhqmo8VUuQHBY_QT_susW-muTv9j9Ue2BpX6ifBxeLYclSDG2WFDiCbYar5N6K395w/s1289/C90B0772-3561-44CD-87EC-38D842093DF3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1289" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUwsJhWfUFcY9AIO2WlXbkRyAx6inL5zW7MDK1GGM8Srh4cxKYhwON6GYfE9Gef1sTajdbEiu-uLdOpA-RKlqzqwU2Dv1F-3mzxRCWbpNh0_PQBpefaXxi5ImKhqmo8VUuQHBY_QT_susW-muTv9j9Ue2BpX6ifBxeLYclSDG2WFDiCbYar5N6K395w/s320/C90B0772-3561-44CD-87EC-38D842093DF3.jpeg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bless our inventive ancestors, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who gave us </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Daddy God of the Torah and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lawyer God of the Talmud,</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dreaming God of immigrants and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pediatric God of children,</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Unlimited God of the mystics and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Unmoving God of the philosophers, </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Many Gendered God of community and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Personal God who is each of ours, alone,</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The non-existent god of our skepticism and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Holy Whole-ness of our adult searching.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Loving God of our births and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Redemptive God of our deaths,</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With our imaginations and creations,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With our memories and traumas, </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With awe and concern for those who came before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And with fear and love for all who will come after,</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stand within the One-ness. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blessed Was•Is•Will Be, </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our shield</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our doubt</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our history. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To this God we pray. </span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amen</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-5545167771071059132023-05-07T18:56:00.004-07:002023-05-07T18:56:37.566-07:00New Ritualwell Class: LITURGY WRITING FOR PRAYER LEADERS <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1zX0X5dD0j3yfZ8gHCBfZBgevGC-yFaj0zLK-pYUL9oy6H54-4pSj0ecpyG1qqNPgIVyi-ks854yxpJD_W9MipsN_MBVzipgw-H6e4z2ugDPFpcmce_Rmf7fs7igQHzkPjYBflIpWSKFU1oyM8CBEsdZOBMCNa4n-zTUC5BzgPLe8h0tqRE_QSSSTA/s1080/9A7AB512-8A29-4FD8-9D5A-B0A887519EE4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1zX0X5dD0j3yfZ8gHCBfZBgevGC-yFaj0zLK-pYUL9oy6H54-4pSj0ecpyG1qqNPgIVyi-ks854yxpJD_W9MipsN_MBVzipgw-H6e4z2ugDPFpcmce_Rmf7fs7igQHzkPjYBflIpWSKFU1oyM8CBEsdZOBMCNa4n-zTUC5BzgPLe8h0tqRE_QSSSTA/w376-h376/9A7AB512-8A29-4FD8-9D5A-B0A887519EE4.jpeg" width="376" /></a></div><p></p><p>Liturgy Writing for Prayer Leaders</p><p>May 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT</p><p>$250</p><p>May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023</p><p>Liturgy may be poetry, but is a poem necessarily liturgy? What turns a piece of writing into liturgy, something you can use during a prayer service? In this immersion, led by liturgist Trisha Arlin, you will learn criteria and techniques to transform your poems and prayers into liturgy. In each session, we will discuss a topic you might need to address during a prayer service or event; then you will be prompted to write your personal take on it, as a first step toward creating your own liturgy. This immersion is for prayer leaders who have some experience writing prayers and want to receive feedback and hone their skills as liturgists in a supportive environment.</p><p>https://ritualwell.org/event/liturgy-writing-for-prayer-leaders/2023-05-24/</p><p><br /></p>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504956424737289828.post-63334848365947876562023-04-07T11:21:00.004-07:002023-04-08T09:42:35.881-07:00What I Do Now<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wKGn8ABnLTn3zEv7E4nTBoMGzaz6ipoZG0O1AyrtL0o-rdQXxhh0cluo3mszIz1Bnu1fuDq_wUOY2dyfntwW2U-OkLtwkICX_ncwGy5F2WavTeiQ3MB1DlwpEBw-km--yfQWV1S-mMT-vrGMgvs41OLh9NdBvjjtNAHLo_BkMT0VWm903P3R3lWkCw/s1170/70BD4D18-CF78-4B4C-BABD-3FD62C02AF25.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1170" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wKGn8ABnLTn3zEv7E4nTBoMGzaz6ipoZG0O1AyrtL0o-rdQXxhh0cluo3mszIz1Bnu1fuDq_wUOY2dyfntwW2U-OkLtwkICX_ncwGy5F2WavTeiQ3MB1DlwpEBw-km--yfQWV1S-mMT-vrGMgvs41OLh9NdBvjjtNAHLo_BkMT0VWm903P3R3lWkCw/s320/70BD4D18-CF78-4B4C-BABD-3FD62C02AF25.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art by Carolyn Hall</div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I didn’t find what I do now</span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">(not remunerative but very satisfying) </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Until my fifties. </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">But first I lost interest </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">In everything I was doing </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Beforehand. </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Or it lost interest in me. </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I mourned, </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I got bored. </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Then I was surprised </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">By the new thing. </div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I wish for you that surprise.</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div>Trisha Arlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00594907533592370458noreply@blogger.com0