Wounded Heart

Ki oni v’evyon anochi, v’libi chalal b’kirbi
Graphic: Wounded Heart in Hebrew
For I am poor and lowly, and my heart is wounded within me. (Psalm 109:22)
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I stand before God, the Great Mystery, in humility, opening to the great love. My heart has been pierced by the arrows of this world — by suffering and hatred and lies and cruelty. Into the hollow of that heart wound, I invite God to enter and dwell.

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