Joy

Joy is … a woman’s gathering. Women gathering for song, kind words, wisdom, healing and love. Always a blessing.

19th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … mixed media fun. Your inner child can come out to play, experiment and discover when you allow yourself to create. Instead of limiting beliefs like proclaiming that you ‘can’t do art’ because of childhood and adult beliefs of what art ‘should’ look like  – let go and thank G-d! for how freeing that is 

18th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … coming upon the realization that most stuff just doesn’t matter. As a sensitizer and ruminatizer and analyzer, it’s great to process emotions and do thought work. And sometimes it’s really nice to just take a short cut and say ‘It just doesn’t matter.’

17th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is …the signs of Spring? Even though it may many inches, what’s underneath is precious life. Spring life follows winter.

16th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … playing in the snow. One of the best creative outlets around ?

15th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is …being a soul. A soul doesn’t question its worth. It doesn’t bother with the confusion of ‘I am enough’; ‘I’m not enough.’ It doesn’t dilly dally with ‘I do enough; I don’t do enough.’ These are ego based dilemmas. A soul does its divine worldly service because it sees that divine in everything. A soul doesn’t question its worth. Save energy, be a soul.

14th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Happy Purim! Esther is the heroine of today’s Jewish holiday of Purim. Her name means hidden and is very metaphorical of the tremendous concealment of spiritual light in the terrible, yet victorious story of Purim. Esther was a Jewish orphan who grew up to be an extremely pious and modest woman in Persia in 4th century BCE. When King Achashverosh had all the girls of Persia and surrounding lands brought to him so he could choose a wife, she hid in her home, hoping to escape marrying this barbaric brute. The king’s officers found her and brought her to the palace. The divine plan was that it was her whom the king chose from thousands of girls. Little did Esther know that a spiritual tikkun (fixing) was taking place through her. She was the reincarnation of Chava (Eve) and also needed to rectify a grave mistake made by her ancestor, King Saul.To make a very long story short, it was through Queen Esther that the entire Jewish nation was saved from the evil death plans of Haman (reincarnation of the serpent), second in command to King Achashevorsh.

Esther and the holy Jewish sage, Mordechai, recorded this historical story – fittingly named the story of Esther (Megilos Esther) – to be read aloud from scrolls. Up until the decree that all the Jews in Persia and the surrounding lands were to be slaughtered, no one was aware of how fate could be turned around. And yet it was.

Following the theme of concealment, G-d’s name is not found anywhere in this holy writing of the story. How could that be? G-d is all over Jewish writings and yet these two holy people did not include the divine in their book. The reason is that they chose to hide G-d in the scroll just as G-d’s hand was hidden during this time in history. It is a passed down in tradition that in many places of the megillah when the word King is mentioned it refers to Hashem (G-d). It is amazing the Jewish mysticism of the orchestrations of the divine.

And so it is today, most often it is difficult if not impossible to see G-d in this world. It is considered a time of double darkness with all the crazy happenings of this present time. And yet for those who are willing to look behind the scenes, they can see G-d’s hand everywhere.

May we merit to awaken within ourselves true divine consciousness and reveal the supernal G-dly light that already exists.

13th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … being heard and understood. Wow, what a gift to be given.

12th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … loving thoughts for your body. Try this one for today: ‘my body is an amazing and perfect machine in an imperfect world.’ As research has revealed, our cellular system will hear what the brain is thinking and hear it as a command. Add:  ‘today, I give my body the permission to make corrections.’ 

11th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy

Joy is … giving compassion to your inner child. No matter how old I get, she still remains with me. When I’m feeling fearful, sad, vulnerable or shame, I can bet that my inner child is needing some comforting. I don’t have to process or dissolve those emotions. I just have to bring into my imagination a compassionate angel to hug, hold and share kind words with that little me.

10th day of the Jewish month of Adar – the month of Joy