Here we are in the midst of Sivan. In this month we celebrated Shavuot-a time of receiving, a time of revelation.
This morning my daughter and I were walking our dog and looking for heart shaped stones along the way. In a moment of clarity and surprise (at least to me), my 11 year old wisely professed-"Mom, you know you can never be in the same place twice. The next time you come it will have rained, or the light will be different in the sky-it's never ever exactly the same again."
And I added "You won't be the same either, you will have learned new things and see the world in a new way. This is why we can read Torah over and over and there is more in it each time."
"Yeah," she said, "first you might just read the stories, but the next time you might notice something you didn't the last time."
Indeed...how appropriate an awareness for this month of Sivan-revelation doesn't happen only once in our lives with smoke and rumbling, fire and a shofar blast-Revelation is far more subtle, it is a constant unfolding-but you have to be looking for it (like a heart shaped stone) in order to see/hear/receive what it is you need to learn in the moment.
This morning my daughter and I were walking our dog and looking for heart shaped stones along the way. In a moment of clarity and surprise (at least to me), my 11 year old wisely professed-"Mom, you know you can never be in the same place twice. The next time you come it will have rained, or the light will be different in the sky-it's never ever exactly the same again."
And I added "You won't be the same either, you will have learned new things and see the world in a new way. This is why we can read Torah over and over and there is more in it each time."
"Yeah," she said, "first you might just read the stories, but the next time you might notice something you didn't the last time."
Indeed...how appropriate an awareness for this month of Sivan-revelation doesn't happen only once in our lives with smoke and rumbling, fire and a shofar blast-Revelation is far more subtle, it is a constant unfolding-but you have to be looking for it (like a heart shaped stone) in order to see/hear/receive what it is you need to learn in the moment.
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