Click on this picture to make it big. See the light bursting from the cracks in the pomegranate.
Ring the bells that still can ring!
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in every thing.
That's where the light gets in.
(Leonard Cohen)
I've been writing little stories for the children I work with. I asked how to say, "safe and sound" in Hebrew. "Shalem v'bari". Shalem means "whole".
Interesting, how much emphasis there is on wholeness. The "How are you?" greeting is, "Ma Shlomcha?" How is your wholeness, your proximity to the ideal state we long for, where there are no holes in our soles (one of our holiday guests wrote in the guest book about the "soul full" time they had with us).
"Shalem" means "Whole"
and "Shalom" is......Shalom.
There is nothing as whole as a broken heart.
For it is from our broken places
that we can connect with one another.