Category: Meditations

For the Jewish New Year, which begins this evening, it is traditional to eat apple dipped in honey as a ritual to usher in a sweet new year.

What sweetness do you hope to bring to your year to come?

Dancers create a community of touch, joining hands over and over, letting go over and over to connect with the next person down the line.

What community—physically present or not—holds your hand?

There’s something not just useful, but also gratifying about making a list, outlining the things you need to do so that you can cross them off one by one. And who hasn’t written a task down just for the pleasure of crossing it off again? However, the biggest tasks—things like loving our neighbors, seeking beauty and cultivating an open heart—never get crossed off the list, so we don’t bother to write them down.

What would you put on a list of tasks that you will never be done with?

When you’ve emptied the cup, it seems like all that is left is a few drops at the bottom. But really, you still have the cup, and the hand that holds it. And, if you’re lucky, the hands of those who would sit with you and share a cup.

When you look at something in your life that feels empty, what holds that emptiness?

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
―Corrie ten Boom

Who have you forgiven through an act of will, simply because you decided it was the right thing to do?