Author: clfuu

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is often celebrated with apples and honey, for a “sweet new year.” It is seen as a blessing to be able to partake in sweetness, and it evokes gratitude.

How can you bring sweetness into your life today?

On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the shofar, a horn made from a ram’s horn, is blown in synagogues around the world. It calls people to attention and wakes them up to the spiritual work that needs to be done to greet the new year.

What is the spiritual work you have to do? How can you wake yourself up to it?

In the United States, the first Monday of September is Labor Day, and celebrates work, organizing, and mutual support.

How are work and spirit linked in your mind and heart? How can labor be part of your spiritual practice?

As we work together to build structures and institutions that serve justice and liberation, we must make sure that our construction is reinforced so that it can withstand the forces that seek to tear it back down.

What are you building? How are you reinforcing it?

In recent weeks, millions of people around the world have been displaced from their homes because of storms, floods, fires, and wars. We hold them in our hearts and together work for their survival.

What is displacing you from solid spiritual ground today? How can you find a stable place to recover?