TRISHA ARLIN: Words Of Prayer And Intention: Prayer for Those Avoiding The News

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Prayer for Those Avoiding The News

Turn off the screens,

I don’t want to look.

I’m scared

Disgusted

Devastated

Angry.

And I know

I’m not doing enough to help

Or worse

Not doing anything at all.

I’m made helpless by events

That feel too big to be shaped by me.

I will eat a pint of ice cream

And hope that this is temporary but

Today

I can’t bear to look.

Help me look.

Amen

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AnonymousNovember 3, 2022 at 1:02 PM
I’ve started watching a cable series. Much better for my head! Sadly!
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PLACE YOURSELF: Words of Prayer and Intention

A collection of prayers, kavannot, blessings

by Trisha Arlin

Forward by Rabbi Jill Hammer

Art by Mike Cockrill

Published by Dimus Parrhesia Press

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and

"Yizkor For the Ambivalent" in BESIDE STILL WATERS, A JOURNAL OF COMFORT AND RENEWAL, ed. Rachel Barenblatt, to be be published in 2018 https://yourbayit.org/bayit-publishing-beside-still-waters/?frame-nonce=f0253944c0

In 2019:

"Aleinu: It is Upon Us" in RENEW OUR HEARTS: A Siddur for Shabbat Day. https://yourbayit.org/renew-our-hearts-a-siddur-for-shabbat-day/

STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM Published by Ben Yehuda Press.Includes an article on "Choosing A Siddur in a Pluralist Congregation" by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann and Trisha Arlin and the kavannah, "A Prayer Before Blowing the Shofar", by Trisha Arlin

"Emet: Truth–Established and Otherwise" in A POET'S SIDDUR, edited by Rick Lupert . Ain't Got No Press, 2017

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Prayer for Those Avoiding The News

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