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No one can describe in words the high value of prayer, for it transcends even the mystery of the angels

Saint John Chrysostom

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last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

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“It’s always impressed me that Judaism mandates that goodbyes be said with a certain amount of hope. We end Shabbat with havdalah, a beautiful ceremony concluded by extinguishing a twisted candle in sweet wine and singing a song asking for a week of peace and a time of redemption for humankind. Seders end with the promise ‘Next year in Jerusalem’. On Simchat Torah, we conclude the reading of the Torah by rolling back to its beginning. Funerals end with Kaddish, a prayer not about death but about the generous gift of life and God’s goodness. At the completion of shiva, the rabbi often takes the mourners out of their homes for a brief stroll that enacts literally what is meant symbolically – walking them back into life. Somehow Jews trust that every ending is also a beginning, that the broken hearted will again feel loved, and the sun will rise no matter how long or dark the night.”

— Rabbi Steven Z Leder (via yidquotes)

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For whatever reason God wants me to blog. Idk why. This how Job must have felt………….

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Final Poem in Some Poems by Paul Klee, trans. by Anselm Hollo

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i really like the book of proverbs because on one hand you've got your poetic musings on god and wisdom and on the other hand you've got the very practical advice of "if you loudly greet your neighbor early in the morning, he will think of it as a curse"

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psalm 33:4-5 (msg)

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You know, if we DO make contact with aliens within the next hundred years-ish, enough people are going to give the Vulcan salute to the first alien they see in real life (whether out of quivering excitement, lol memeitude, or sheer awkward, panicked grasping for the one prominent alien greeting nested in the social conscious) that there's a solid chance that it becomes a thing we're known for as humans.

Live Long and Prosper, my friends.

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At the River Clarion, Mary Oliver

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“One can ignore an indifferent and distant God, but one cannot so easily resist a God who is so close and has even been wounded for love. Goodness, beauty, truth, and love: this is what we have to offer this beggar world, albeit in half-broken bowls.”

— Pope Francis

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A little while, and you will see me no longer. Again in a little while, and you will see me.

John 16:16

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angel who hides in an abandoned torah ark

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"Nature Morte.", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

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psalm 13

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“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”

— Julian of Norwich