Your soul now stretches like a flower unfurling her petals,
opening wider and wider.
It is now time,
time to ready for wedding.
For one day you eat only dairy foods,
taking you back to the beginning of life, to the first food that sustained you
when you emerged into this world.
You remember that primal closeness, the innocence of the newly born.
You remember the Garden.
You drink milk, color of the Moon, bearer of knowledge.
You gather roses, rich with fragrance, sacred flower.
You begin your pilgrimage, walk of faith, carrying the fruit of your fields,
of your being, to offer as pledge, as betrothal gift.
And you call upon the name of God
HaKodesh,
Holy One,
One Who is dear to your soul.
HaKodesh,
You Who are Holy, You Who see the holy in me,
this eve I am ready to join with You.
I have struggled to release that which binds me,
so that I might be free, fully free,
to stand with You.
Now the time has arrived.
I am garbed in light. I am decked with roses.
I am ready to go beneath the wedding canopy,
to engage my soul, to wed.
I join all my ancestors at the foot of the Mountain.
It too is touched with light. It is aflame, kindled.
The sacred places are waiting.
I have been here before.
Each year I return to this spot in the desert.
Each year we meet here again, under the canopy,
And each year we wed ourselves differently.
Each year more of myself emerges.
Each year I shed more husks, pass through more gates.
Each year I am more free, more of me is present to unite with You.
And each year of my life I learn more of You.
We wed different parts of ourselves each meeting.
So my Beloved, so Holy One, so my Maker, my Source, my Wellspring,
I come to pledge myself anew,
to join with You in Holy endeavor.
I circle You in candlelight. I bind myself to You forever.
HaKodesh,
let us enter once again our covenant. Let us renew yet again our vows.
Let us start once again to walk together.
I join with You Holy One and enter into my task once more,
to take my place beside You
that we might join as healers of the world of creation
that we might practice the art of loving kindness
that we might be practitioners of ways of light
that we might dance together
all of our lives.
HaKodesh, Holy One,
I betroth You to me forever.
I betroth You to me in righteousness and in justice.
I betroth You to me in loving kindness and in compassion.
I betroth You to me in faithfulness.
I join my soul to You, HaKodesh, Holy One.
I am Your precious one and
You are my Beloved.
Friday, July 4, 2008
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