Hope
As Mr. Rogers would say, it’s been a beautiful day in the neighborhood. The kind of day you’d like to …
Category Archives: prayer
A Prayer for After the Storm
It’s been quite a week. Waiting for a hurricane to arrive is like being stalked by a turtle. It seems …
Prayer
Years ago I taught in a program for Jewish teens. When we got to the class on prayer I said …
Audacious Prayer
Prayer can be difficult. Sometimes we know exactly what we want to say. Sometimes there are no words. And sometimes …
Prayers of Thanks Before the Storm
You’d think praying would be pretty simple. But often it’s anything but. Sometimes it comes haltingly, or not at all. …
A Mourner’s Pain
Shabbat — February 18, 2012 I’m in mourning. My father died five months ago. My grandfather died 40 years ago …
The Last Week of Prayer Camp
Wednesday morning I’ll leave at the crack of dawn to fly to Connecticut for the last week of what I …
Pray Like You Mean It!
It is ridiculous how much I’ve changed over the past year. What’s changed? I’ve learned that “the God I don’t …
God’s Vocabulary
“God gave me mind and heart to learn divine matters from natural events.” So wrote Harold Schulweis while in the …
What’s a College Student to Do?
A couple of people wrote to me about my young friend at FSU, and I feel obliged to tell you …
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