Elohim hashivaynu v’ha’ayr panecha v’nivashay’ah

Oh God return us; shine the light of your presence;
thus we will be delivered. (Psalm 80:4)
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Return us to our true selves, God. To our spacious awareness, to our complete acceptance of what is. When You shine on and through us, the light of compassionate awareness, with the radiance of Your Presence, we are saved from our pettiness, from our reactivity, from our grudges, from small-minded impulses for revenge. Then, we are delivered into our true capacities for generosity and joy.

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