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The Midnight Ocean
  
Reflections, Poetry, and Prose from the depths of the Midnight Ocean.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. Psalm 130
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant. After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inwards parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
Wherefore the law is holy, and the Commandment Holy, and just, and good. Rom7:12
Sifatai tiftach- u'fi yagid- tehilatecha!
- If I open my lips- let my mouth- declare Your praise!
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YOU ARE INVITED TO COME WITH ME TONIGHT... Nov 14, 2008 8:01 pm
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So what happens on Shabbat when you are single, and the candle upon your table is lit, after you have read the Word of G-d, and prayed, and your day is coming to a close? And you've got a lot yet on your mind?
Well, you just might catch yourself staring intently into the flickering comfort of the flame as it dances sublimely about the wick yet another night. It waxes and wanes in intensity. Molasses-like motion melding into excited crackle, and then careening into serene- almost motionless stability of steady luminosity.

It's a show of unpredictability, wonderment, and physical property.
Above this, it's a lesson in spirituality.
In other words...it's life.

And as I ponder its substance, and lose myself in it's surreal essence tonight, it melts my heart as efficiently and warmly as it does the wax composing its body.
It's written that the soul of man is the candle of G-d.

As I stare tonight at my candle, it's a time of reflection. I become less complicated, and a more simple man, as my being becomes enthralled with the warm flicker. In someway, I become more timeless and ancient. The grime accrued throughout the week by the stresses of modern life is burnt hotly through, if only for a moment. Most all loneliness is lost in the comfort of the writhing torch. My imperfections and misgivings are self-actualized with detached recognition and patience.
What might a single man do when alone and the candle on the table is light at night?
He thinks of his family and how they warm his soul. And comfort him in the harsh coldness. Just as the candles flame.
He thinks of his new baby nephew as the flame rocks left and right for a time, as if swaying lovingly to a lullaby.
He thinks of his friends past and present, and how they have crackled and made him laugh in times of joy and sorrow. And how they kept him from feeling the wages of unwanted solitude in time past.
He thinks of all the women, whom he cared for throughout his years, both old and new; as the flame singes the wax and sends up a tiny plume of blackened smoke. He remembers those with whom their were fiery collisions of different internal substance.
He also considers his enemies and all his challenges, as the flame seems to wane so dim he fears it might be snuffed,and lose it's light to my worry.
But finally, what he thinks about as he gazes upon the shabbat flame, is his future. Just as the flame tickles and undulates about the wick in unpredictable fashion, so does his life play out before him.
Ah, yes, the soul of man is the candle of G-d, indeed.
And what he realizes yet again as he blows out the candle at the conclusion of his November night, is that no matter what transpired throughout his week; no matter his perceived successes, or failures, he is- and always will be- simply a candle of G-d.
No more no less.
I am only me. And He is the I AM (blessed is He).
And that candle... is a reflection of my life.

GBY Little Children,
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