I’m borrowing shamelessly from The Velveteen Rabbi today. She wrote a wonderfully moving post recently about listening to the shofar
In talking about brokenness, she shares some lines by, as she calls him, the great rebbe Leonard Cohen:
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
Amen.
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Those four lines just sent my thoughts in a hundred directions at once. Wow.
Yeah, me too.
Wow! I saw your blog listed on Anita’s links list & bookmarked it awhile back. Today was my first opportunity to sit & read it. I came here to visit feeling joyful. I am leaving feeling joyful AND peaceful. Thank you! This will now be a regular morning visit for me!
i love the image of brokenness as opening space to let more in. it also reminds me of the l’arche community…perfection through brokenness.
i agree with heyjules…my thoughts go a hundred directions at once!
Thanks very much, Lucy I agree so much with your l’arche connection.
Kai, welcome and thank you for your very kind words, I’m delighted to be a morning visit for you.
This is a point I neede to hear today.