Blessing For Those Feeling Good as a Nice Change

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One-ness,

I give thanks for this burst of wellbeing in my body/mind/heart!

May it grow and endure 

And come back if it goes away for a while. 

Amen

During These Days

Bless these holy days of searching

That enable us to ask so many fruitful questions, 

Sanctifying our awareness of our  creative Jewish contradictions,

No matter what the traditional liturgy tells us   

We are not a chosen people. 

We are the people who choose. 

And we choose to make holy our obligations and our doubts,

Our regrets and our commitments,

And our guilt and our innocence. 

During these days of searching we ask, 

Where are you?

Here I am, today. 

Amen

Lecha Dodi Kavannah

 

Come, my friends, to meet Shabbat. 

Every week I step out of mundane time

To be present to what I’m actually doing

Instead of dwelling on what I’ve done before 

Or what I might do next

Or what has or will be done to me or around me,

Shabbat.

No matter how content, miserable or stimulated I am,

Every time I am fully inside the depth of a feeling

That is truly of now,

Aware in compassion, truth and presence,

In true connection, then 

It is Shabbat.  

And I am one with the bride:

Hopeful, excited, happy,

Meeting my friends,

My beloveds,

New every week:

My Shabbat.

Lecha Dodi!