Lech Lecha
How can we return to our inner home?
Reflection by Dafna Arnoni, Or HaLev teacher
"Lech Lecha. Go.
Go to you.
Go to yourself.
Put down all the recognizing and the knowing
and surrender yourself to the primordial One
for one moment.
Return to yourself, to your home
the home of your soul.
Take a breath and forget for one moment
about the past that is breathing down your neck
or the future knocking at your door.
Rest the body here in its place.
Continue coming right back to here.
Go. Go.
Go to yourself
Go to your God
to your home, the home of your soul.
And today, a day amidst many painful and terrible days
meets these words and asks to be returned home.
How true, how supportive, how resourcing it can be in these days to return to yourself.
Even for one moment, for a fraction of a second
you can remember that we have enormous power
to support ourselves and to be supported.
Just for a moment, out of the storm and uncertainty,
get back to breathing.
Notice your feet held up by the land that knows.
Look at the blue, autumnal sky.
Return to an inner home that is present and loving.
In prayer for better days."