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Prayer for Unity
Sounding Board
Sounding Board Help us hear all those who are trying to reach us.Truthful but tactful, diplomatic, but direct.Provide the strength to look past small slightsand get to the story behind infractions.Help us hear what isn’t said.As we go through our own life’s travels,inspire others to lend an ear even when they’re in a hurry or in a bind....
Keeping Score
Keeping Score Thank You for simple pleasuresthat fill my heart with gratitude:the kiss of color in a masterpiece of sky,the refreshing coolnessof yogurt in the morning light,a clean, comfortable bedat the end of the day. In my blessed abundance,help me understand why
Women of All Faiths
Women of All Faiths We gather together, women of all faiths.We bring to you our thanks and our worries,our joy and our heartbreak. You are much greater than we can ever be.Please share with us the peace and...
Gal Pals
Gal Pals They're the ones that I can count on,sure as the beads on an abacus.It is miraculous to mehow You fit them into my life:the childhood friend,the college roommate,the confidante,the sisters by birthand by marriage.Treasures, all...a profusion much greaterthan one woman deserves.Thank You for the bondsforged by...
Peacemakers
Peacemakers Blessed are those whospeak the words that calm us,quiet us, and bring us back to you.Blessed are those who,with a look or a touch,still the fear that leads to hate. Oh, help me to beone of your peacemakers.Where there is strife,Help me bring calm.Where there is pain,Help me bring healing.
Lesson in Roses
Lesson in Roses I was thinking,the other day,about tea roses.The splendid profusionof hybrids—two beautiful plantsbred togetherinto something startlingly newand impossibly lovely.And it occurred to methat it was something like a marriage:The two of us,starting out foreign to one another,
The Truth About Troubles
The Truth About Troubles If you just scan the headlines of my life,you'll think I'm delusional.What in the world would make me thinkthere's any hope?Calloused hearts, empty stomachs, aimless souls.Tail-gaters, back-stabbers, nay-sayers.It seems that civilityhas become a casualty.Human is no longer
Unfolding
Unfolding I belong to You.I know this best when I am here,sharing this space and timewith only You. I unfold here,bringing each part of myself forward againto be seen by Your familiar eyesand to be held in Your focused affection. Please unfold for me, too.Let me meet You the way You meet me--with exclusive attention,with...
One People, One Purpose, One Prayer for Unity
One People, One Purpose, One Prayer for Unity Jews are very clannish people. I know; I am one. I got confirmation from a welcome source this past Sabbath. Rabbi Michael Melchior was a guest Rabbi at the
A Different Road
A Different Road The road of change is not well-lit;it's the dark corner of the mall parking lot,way in the back, by the dumpsters.It is that blind turn on the highway,the one you take surface streets to avoid.The road to change hurts,alternately slippery, thorny and up-hill both ways,uncomfortable, brutal, mean.
Army of Hope
Army of Hope In a world rocked by devastation,by earthquakes and tsunamis,by starvation and cruelty,I am only one person.It is so easy to claim I can do nothing,so easy to be intimidatedby the disasters before me. Please soften my heart again.Remind me of my brothers and sisters,of all...
Committed to Each Other
Committed to Each Other As they commit themselvesto each other's hearts, hands and lives, I thank You.For helping them find each other—friends and lovers,supporters and confidants. Thank You for letting me share in their joy-to bask in the loveof two such special...
