Comments on: Sabbath Practice http://jeffberryman.com/2007/07/16/sabbath-reflection/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bro. Bartleby http://jeffberryman.com/2007/07/16/sabbath-reflection/#comment-62 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:18:08 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/sabbath-reflection/#comment-62 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD

The Shema is recited in the morning and evening, the three passages of Deuteronomy 6:4-9, on rising to the new day one recited, or pledges, standing, vertical, and in the evening, upon placing oneself on the horizontal, at the end of day, before departing the wakeful world, one’s last words are again “… Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. …”

The vertical and the horizontal, the cross of life, and we suddenly find it is I?

]]> By: hamrex http://jeffberryman.com/2007/07/16/sabbath-reflection/#comment-61 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:01:12 +0000 http://jeffberryman.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/sabbath-reflection/#comment-61 I keep reading your blog and being amazed that so many things that you are posting are right in line with things I am reading/thinking about as a I blog my way through “Zen…”. Yesterday’s chapter dealt with the idea of “stuckness” and how you have to get away to get unstuck and find your way back to quality. The idea led me to a place in my “Belief House” (a cute little metaphysical residence I’ve been outlining) I like to call Peace. Peace is the balcony where I can go when I need to rise above the noise and conflict and hevel. It gives me perspective. I like it because it reminds me that I don’t have to end all of the conflict to have Peace. I just have to go back to the place where God is my central pillar and he helps me rise above and see beyond the immediate trouble. When I come back out, I’m ready and I’m not alone.

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