welcome, well come to the 36th day of a season of peace,,. let’s take this moment of eternity to breathe deeply through our one heart and drop down into our wisdom space in the core of our being to listen to an old hasidic tale of our soul’s conception and journey to birth supported by the angel (messenger), lailah…

it all begins in the roots of the tree of life where the soul is seeded and then moves to the branches of the tree to ripen… when the soul falls to the ground, the angel lailah, serving as a midwife of souls, puts the sacred soul in the mother’s womb… while the infant grows in the womb, lailah places a lighted candle at the head of the unborn infant, so he or she or they can see from one end of the world to the other and lailah teaches the soul in utero her/his/their soul’s herstory…

when the time comes for the baby to be born, the angel extinguishes the light in the womb and brings forth the child into the world… in the instant the child emerges, the angel lightly strikes her finger to the child’s lips as if to say “shh,” which causes the child to forget everything learned in the womb and reminds us to listen to the deep self within, the soul, that always re-members…

may we all re-member our soul song and that “shhh” is to silence us so we can listen for el canto hondo, the deep self song of the soul that whispers to us of our true nature, who we are and what is ours to gift the world…