It is all fine and good to talk about rejecting none and embracing all, but his is hard work. I mean just to keep up this desire is hard work. Firstly, let's admit, most people resist embracing. They resist the embrace of each other, they resist the embrace of God, they resist loving themselves. After so much resistance and so long in this world is it any wonder that the soul that has chosen to love is worn out? Add to this that love, which is the most difficult commandment, is one that many religious people think is so simple they have roundly chosen to ignore it.

This morning at prayer I feel the circle of people I pray for widening to those it did not touch before. When I sing Shacharis, the morning prayer, how do I pray for others? It is like a net, or like the wings of the eagle in the psalm, it is like the chuppah in the night prayer spreading over myself, over those in my heart. As my heart widens so does the chuppah, As my heart widens so do I.

Every morning we thank God for his miracles which are with us everyday, and in so doing not only vow to see his hand in all places and things, but pray for this gift of seeing. The first miracle in love is how we become greater, our souls becoming part of the souls of those we lift in our morning prayers.