49 Days of Healing
More to Come
The Week of Chesed
Sunset, February 24th - Sunset, March 2nd
The week of Chesed/Lovingkindness calls us to reflect on the opportunities we are given throughout our day to live and breathe from the heart of gratitude.
No matter what conditions or challenges we meet, we can choose to embrace all with a surrendered heart filled with the lovingkindness that flows to us.
It is inherit in us. It is part of our genetic coding. All we need to do is remember and realize this gift is with us.
That doesn’t mean that we should be a dish rag or a door mat for people to walk all over us, but rather stay grounded in the Love and Kindness that is ours to receive from Our Mother and Father in Heaven.
The Week of Gevurah
Sunset, March 2nd - Sunset, March 9th
Simply put, “Discipline of Faith” is about being a student of God. If we have faith that God is our Teacher and our Friend, we will be subtly taught and shown The Way.
This process of learning and teaching demands patience and attention as well as careful listening through the stillness and the silence. This school of thought or just being doesn’t have to do with any religions or doctrines, but it has everything to do with letting go and letting God.
Meditation, mindless working... mindless thinking... letting God think and breathe you are all ways to begin to listen to the voice of Lovingkindness that dwells from within and around you.
The Counting of Omer
Counting the 49 Days of Omer is a sacred time where we not only honor the transitions of the ages, but on a very down to earth level, we honor the knowledge that is inherit in our very bodies.
The vessel of our soul of Light is constructed in the image of God. The vessel is a blueprint of the infinite possibilities of God housed within the matrix of Kabbalah.
If we are made in the image and likeness of God, then we can easily see that the construct of Kabbalah is also the blueprint of the vessel which carries our very soul.
When we honor and observe the Days of Counting Omer, we are also putting on Christ Compassion, because we are remembering the essence of who Our Lord and Savior was as He walked among us. He continually carried the Remembrance of Our One True Home within Him and around Him. That remembrance is also housed within us.
As we honor and observe the Days of Omer, we ask that we are not only washed clean of all that we do not need... all that does not serve us, but also that we remember the Way of Christ within us. By remembering the knowledge of God that is the house of our being, we reinforce the framework of God’s Love for us.
It is our hope that as we walk the Days of Omer, our personal connection with God will also be reinforced and that God’s Guidance and Grace will be ever stronger in our daily lives. Amen
Note: In Hebrew history the Counting of Omer represents the 49 day journey from Egypt to
Mt. Sinai. It symbolizes the freedom from bondage in Egypt and the journey to Mt. Sinai to receive the Light of God as the Ten Commandments.
The Week of Tiferet
Sunset, March 9th - Sunset, March 16th
May the Compassionate Heart teach us The Way of Lovingkindness.
Love is a mind that brings peace, joy, and happiness to another person.
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.
We all have the seeds of love and compassion in our minds, and we can develop these fine and wonderful sources of energy. We can nurture the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return and therefore does not lead to anxiety and sorrow.
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves “inside the skin” of the other. We go “inside” their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering.
Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough
to see their suffering. We must become one with the object of our observation. When we are in contact with another’s suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, “to suffer with.”
“Love is Compassion in Action”, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Week of Netzach
Sunset, March 16th - Sunset, March 23th
May the Balance be Restored through Lovingkindness.
“Until Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” MLK. This quote of Martin Luther King was inspired by the scripture verse from Amos 5:24.
As I study the beautifully inspired quote of Martin Luther King, a question comes to mind. Where does the word “justice” surface in the matrix of Kabbalah. I started to discover the answer as I recited the lines of the I Am Presence Mantras. “I am Liberated, Judgement is Gone, I am Enthroned in the Glory of Love”.
That statement is actually connected to Brahman (Chesed). Because Netzach is associated with the Balance being Restored, it is easy for me to
see that there is a link between the quote and Netzach. The 4th day of the week, Kaf, connects Chesed (Brahman) to Netzach (Buddha).
Netzach then then travels downward along the pathway of Tzadi, the King of Righteousness, where it meets Yesod and the image of Yeshua. Can you feel the power and majesty, the Energy of the quote now that you can see it on Kabbalah? It’s powerful ! .. Yes, Amen, May the Balance be Restored as Justice rolls down like Living Waters and Righteousness like a Mighty Stream.
The Week of Hod
Sunset, March 23 - Sunset, March 30th
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
For the Lord takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.
The Week of Yesod
Sunset, March 30th - Sunset, April 6th
The word, bonding, comes from the Hebrew word, devekut which means dedication, traditionally meaning clinging to God. It is a Jewish concept referring to closeness to God. It often refers to a deep, trance-like meditative state.
The only place I found a close link to the word “bond” in the Bible is in the verse Psalm 63:8, “My soul binds itself following You, Your right hand supports me.”
It is interesting to note that I found this verse in the book, Meditation and The Bible, by Aryeh Kaplan. Apparently, the words, cling to and cleave to, have replaced any reference to bonding in the Bible. The word, bonding, is vital to embrace because of it’s direct link to Yesod, the 6 Day of Creation with respect to Kabbalah.
The scripture verse with the closest resonance to the word, Bonding, is in Matthew 11:28-30. “Come unto Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is Light.”
This verse is an invitation to receive Union with God which is the essence of Yoga and meditation. The word “yoga” comes from the Sanskrit root yuj , which means “to join” or “to yoke”. Bonding with God through the silence, hearing His unspoken words through the stillness, trusting His Word, cleaving to and following His Voice from within, uniting with Him through The Invisible Divine Nature of Light, acknowledge God’s availability to each of us and that the task is easy but also up to us to seek and find.
I have often interpreted this verse as meaning “Take My Yoga, upon you and learn from me... for My Yoga is easy and My burden brings Light.”
The Week of Malchut
Sunset, April 6th - Sunset, April 13th
Isaiah 43:5-7 New King James Version (NKJV)
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Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
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I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth—
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Everyone who is called by My name,
Whom I have created for My glory;
I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”