Four Days of Omer: Enduring Grace
Today is four days of the Omer in the year 5783, נצח שבחסד, Netzach ShebeChesed, Enduring Grace. Connecting with the soul within. Allowing the Light of Eternity space within our daily lives.
Staying Connected, Staying Present, Balance and Space
The hardest spiritual practice is the one that occurs in everyday life. When we stay up too late, but still have obligations in the morning. When someone else is yelling and we are trying to stay calm. Doing grunt work when our souls yearn to be free.
It’s easy to be in the flow during retreats from regular life. Maintaining daily connection to Grace is a thousand times harder.
This is why Jewish spiritual leaders are obligated to engage the world as every day people. Rabbis are not unique in our ability to connect to The Source. Hopefully, we have a wider understanding of Jewish source material and an ability to transmit it. Otherwise, we’re fallible humans just like everyone.
Remember the Holiness Within
I’ve always considered mindfulness practice a bit stale. I’m not saying this to disparage your practice. I just can’t fully connect to anything that separates itself from spirit and meaning.
Enduring Grace reminds me that my life is meaningful.
Enduring Grace allows me to accept petty problems with more resilience.
Enduring Grace gives me the courage to heal my psychic wounds.
Enduring Grace challenges me to face my physical limitations head on, rather than pretending they don’t exist.
How Does Enduring Grace Speak to You?
Does the phrase sound goyish?
Are you a staunch atheist who believes in the reality of Values but not the Divine? Perhaps Enduring Flow sounds better?
Flow Surrounds Us
Life is incredibly difficult. We are afraid to metabolize our own experiences.
May we feel strong enough to reconnect with the brokenness within. Where we are cracked, we have the ability to reinforce ourselves.
God didn’t decide our lives for us. Not everything happens for a higher purpose. Nevertheless, we can choose to heal ourselves and live into meaning.
Read More About Four Days of the Omer
Enduring Covenantal Love, 2022 / 5782
Endurance within Flow, 2021 / 5781
Enduring will to nurture covenantal love: Day Four, 2020 / 5780
Enduring prophetic love: Day Four, 2019 / 5779
Choose grace in every moment: Day Four, 2018 / 2018
Honoring the triumph of enduring love: Day Four, 2017 / 5777
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