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May 02, 2014

Prayer Written for my B'Nai Mitzvah Class

Marsha & I are taking a B'Nai Mitzvah class, with our Bat Mitzvahs scheduled to take place Saturday, July 26th (2014).
Our Temple, Beth Chayim Chadashim (http://www.bcc-la.org) happens to be the very first, yes folks, the world's FIRST gay and lesbian (and bi and transgender) Temple in the world.
Rabbi Heather Miller who is leading our class has asked us to create a prayer. Easy for me because I pray to G-d daily, several times a day.
If you've read some or all of this blog, you'll find several prayers which I've written over the years. Here is a new one:

My Dearest G-d
Barauch Ha'Shem
My Dearest G-d
Yod Hai Vov Hai
Adonai
Shekhinah
El Shadai
Ha Shem
Help me to love You with all my heart and soul.
Help me to realize that loving You is the MOST important thing in my life.
Thank You for my life, for my wife - the woman who completes me -
for my health, home, family, and friends.
Thank You for the Creation of this Dear World.
Thank You for making me a Jew, for creating me in Your image, and for sustaining me in all that I do.
Amen

Your Body's Grace

Mary will facilitate a new group, Your Body's Grace. Join us weekly to discuss taking ownership of your body as a vehicle to better know the Divine, the Divine Mystery. To help you feel your body's needs. To discuss ideas to meet those needs.

Your Body's Grace will meet Wednesdays, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at the Ventura Unitarian Church, February 2nd through March 23, 2011.

To see the flyer for this group, please copy and paste the following link: http://www.eldermuse.net/your_bodys_grace_flier.pdf
Nutrition is the miracle of taking in food, nutrients which transform to become our corporeal selves. Our nutritional intake literally affects each and every cell in our body, each cellular process including the process of creating our emotions, feelings, thoughts, dreams, fears. What we eat literally shapes our bodies and our minds.

I've posed some things for us to consider as we seek to find practical, do-able solutions to nurturing ourselves, literally with food, as well as nurturing our souls, our hearts, our best humanity. The need is very real in our world which rapidly creates physical as well as emotional disease.

I wish to teach you, help you lock in the concept of INTENTION. Gain CLARITY about your intention. Plan to CREATE/MANIFEST your intention. How do you already do this? (CREATION/MANIFESTATION). When have you successfully created? What keeps blocking you from what you now want? What do you need to know? From me, from the world, from yourself? What is your worst fear? What is the primary UNTRUTH you tell yourself?

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: No one to blame." Erica Jong

"Vison without action is illusion." annonymous

Women's Spirituality Group

eldermuse.net will be facilitating a new Women's Spirituality Group in Ventura, CA; each Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM. Please see the Flyer for this Women's Group: (copy and paste the following link): http://www.eldermuse.net/Womens_Spirituality_Group_Flyer.pdf ...... The Weekly Group Questions will be posted here: Week 1: (a)Name 2 things which create passion for your heart and soul. (b)Describe the first time you felt the presence of The Divine in your life. Week 2: What to you is integrity and how do you evidence it in your life? Week 3: What do you do to center yourself spiritually? Week 4: (a)Name 2 things you love/appreciate about yourself. (b) Do you love/accept yourself exactly as you are? (c) Do you love the world exactly as it is? Weeks 5,6,7 No questions posed, as Mary was gone. Karen facilitated and shared a video on Forgiveness. Week 8: What do you still have to forgive yourself for? Week 9: How do you display the Divine in your home/space? Week 10: What has caused you to know humility? Week 11: Who has most influenced your Spiritual growth? Week 12:What (if anything) has a special meaning to you at this time of year? Week 13: What do you do to allow yourself to be creative? AND When we get thrown "off course", what do you do to get back to LOVE? Week 14: When in your life have you KNOWN exactly what you MUST do? AND What is your definition of ENLIGHTENMENT? AND What triggers your evolution of human consciousness? Week 15:How do you cultivate gratitude within yourself? AND Do you put aside time daily to be with the Divine? Week 16: What does negativity mean to you, mean in/for your life? Week 17: What are your Truths? Week 18: Discuss a DEFINING MOMENT in your life which touched your heart and soul.

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Mandala above, Homage to Chagall, created for Mary by Paul Heussenstamm

May 02, 2014

Prayer Written for my B'Nai Mitzvah Class

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