A Prayer for Wholeness

  • October 20, 2017

This piece was originally published at Ritualwell.org.

Oh World of Miracles, you are supremely broken.Your shards are painful and cutting.Your pieces are scattered across the globe, aching for wholeness.We seek justice and peace in you.We long and love, divine sparks igniting fires within us.We tend the embers and feed the flames, at times nearly consuming ourselves and our neighbors.We pray for—no, we demand—open heartedness and resilience.We seek grace and peace.We pursue justice.May the fragments of our world and the brokenness of our souls be blessed with strength, wisdom, and compassion.May we be whole again, quickly, in our days.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the latest from Evolve delivered to your inbox.

Related Resources

January 7, 2025
It is important to find a sustainable sense of balance and long-term hope throughout a period of challenge, loss, disappointment and fear.
December 9, 2024
I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.
December 9, 2024
The Maccabees, at least in their early days, were standard-bearers of the fundamentalist camp.
December 9, 2024
Why do progressive communities, whose members themselves have been marginalized, then proceed to marginalize others in their new communities?
November 11, 2024
The presence of her absence fills the spaces where she used to be; the presence of her absence, that is what we live with now.
November 11, 2024
Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

Close-up of olive branches with green olives, sunlight filtering through the leaves creating a warm, golden glow.

Get the latest from Evolve delivered to your inbox.

The Reconstructionist Network