Journey through the Daily Psalms
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From the Psalm for Sunday:
(Psalm 24: 9)
S’u Sh’arim roshaychem, u’s’u pitchay olam
(Lift up your head, oh you gates; lift them up you everlasting doors!)
We are the gates: we are the doorways. God enters the World through us when we “lift up our heads”…when we raise our consciousness. We begin the week with an intention to listen for the call to awareness that lifts us up out of our small concerns into a wide perspective and compassionate responsiveness. By answering that call, we become everlasting doorways between the finite and infinite realms.
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From The Psalm for Monday:
(Psalm 48:10)
Diminu Elohim Chasdecha
(Our Stillness/Silence is Your Love God)
Coming into relationship with God and opening to Divine Love is perhaps the best way of become authentic and of knowing the True Self. As we come into this relationship and open to the force of Love, God strips us of all artifice. We become naked to ourselves. In relationship to God, the Great Mystery, all the layers of defense fall away; all of our posturing dissolves.
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From the Psalm for Tuesday:
(Psalm 82: 8)
Kumah Elohim Shaftah Ha-Aretz
(Arise God, and judge the land.)
As we explore the inner landscape, we find places of shadow - corners of the heart that are unhealed or hidden in shame. We call on the God-force within us to rise up, to reveal the Divine perspective so that the entirety of our inner landscape can be bathed in Awareness.
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From the Psalm for Wednesday:
(Psalm 94: 19)
B’rov sarapai b’kirbi
Tanchumecha y’sha’ashu nafshi
(When worries multiply within me, Your comfort soothes my soul.)
When we become aware of the multitude of voices within, and place those concerns into the context of a vast inner spaciousness, then our harried souls can be soothed, comforted and allowed their Freedom.
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From the Psalm for Thursday:
(Psalm 81: 4-5)
Tiku vachodesh shofar
Ba’keseh l’yom chagaynu
Ki chok l’Yisrael hu mishpat L'Elohai Ya’akov
(Sound a shofar at the New Moon…. at the moment of concealment/potential for our Celebration Day.
It is a statute for Israel; it is a rule for Jacob)
We live our lives in the holy cycles of exile and return, forgetting and remembering, going out from ourselves and returning again to center. We cycle between being Jacob, the ego struggling to manipulate the world, to being Israel, the one who encounters God directly. Through our calendar and festivals we attune to the cycles of the moon whose waxing and waning reflects our own spiritual cycles. As awareness of those cycles deepens, the circles of our lives become spirals, connecting the mysteries of the universe with our own Center.
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From the Psalm for Friday:
(Psalm 93:2)
Nachon kisacha me-az, me-olam atah
(Your throne was long ago secured; beyond eternity are You!)
As we prepare for Shabbat, we gradually release our grip on personally mastering this world. No matter how we have struggled, succeeded or failed during this past week, today we prepare ourselves now to let go of the illusion of control and surrender our cleverness to the vast Intelligence that has been in charge all along.
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From the psalm for Shabbat:
(Psalm 92:6)
Ma-Gadlu Ma’asecha Yah, m’od amku mach’sh’votecha
(How great is your work, oh God, how very deep are your thoughts!)
On Shabbat we step outside of the ordinary stream of time; we leave behind the structures of Duality in order to drink from the extraordinary river of Delight that flows directly from the Source. We set aside our struggles and worries in order to simply appreciate and celebrate Life. Shabbat consciousness requires us to embrace a profound paradox. On the one hand we see the amazing beauty of God’s Creation, and in that same vision we encounter the unfathomable suffering and mystery of our world. On Shabbat we let go of our struggle to understand, explain, make excuses or figure it out. We embrace and accept it all and celebrate existence itself.
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