el-nahara

You don't lack a breakthrough. You lack a place for the breakthrough to live. Most of us have prayed for the mountain, and God has answered, and then Monday arrived with its dishes, its inbox and its tired body. The question Cheshvan asks is not "Did you encounter God?" but "Where did the encounter go?"

Styrax - month of pure speech I'll be honest with you, this stretch of the year is not my favorite. I'm a spring-summer girl at heart, growing up in South Africa this is suppose to be spring and summer time. If I could hibernate through the coming months of winter and rise again with the first warm light, I would. But perhaps that is exactly why Cheshvan has something to teach me.

Beginning again by remembering what time is for. There are moments when a new season arrives and we assume the most important thing is to decide what we will do next. Tishrei invites a different question. What if the beginning of a year is not first about planning the future, but about returning our attention to God?