Ahavah Rabah Ahavtanu
With such a great love You have loved us (Liturgy)
I open to your love,
I open to your blessing
I open to your love,
I receive your firm support
and lean into your wide embrace,
When I walk through your open door
I know the whole world as your face.
Ahavah Rabah Ahavtanu
I composed this at a moment when I was feeling very tired, sad, needy and constricted. I saw clearly, an old pattern of trying to get love, reassurance and validation from others when I felt this way…. But it never really worked. In some corner of my heart I knew that there was a great love—flowing, but I would need to open to it. So, I began to sing these words as a magical incantation to open. After a while, something in me shifted, and I knew that I had located and opened a door within that would always be available to me.
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