a prayer

for fresh expressions of faith · hope · love

Adonai
May the rumination of our hearts
Experience the rumination of your Heart.

May gentle waves of discernment
Elicited by falling pebbles of heavenly revelation
Entering our spirit
Create in us an Abundance of Life.

May wounds from our past
Dressed and healed by your gentle renewal
Prove the basis
Of our own gentle touch
As we reach out to a wounded humanity.

May passionate prayers
Once welling up amidst tearful angst and fearful request
Come home to us now
In fresh expressions
Of faith · hope · love.

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Adonai : ‘My Foundation, My Lord’ — 

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary:

The verb אדן ('dn) means to provide support for a piece of superstructure: to be a base for something big to stand or rotate upon. The noun אדן ('eden) refers to the foundation, base or pedestal of pillars or panels and such, and this word features lavishly in the description of the tabernacle. The tabernacle, of course, was a prototype of the temple, which in turn became embodied by God's living human congregation, and the bases and foundations of that living temple became personified by the human foundation known as אדון ('adon) or אדן ('adon), roughly translatable with lord, sir or mister.