So much has been happening lately, I haven't had the chance to journal here, or even in a real completely uneditied journal for some time. Then I was caught up in writing poetry, and also cuaght up the creation of a nother novel. Creation is always a gift. In creative writing seminar, the messageboard is full of people who say they cannot write and their main problem is being self consciosu. They cannot write past themselves. They cannot express anything. They are doubting themselve,s firstly, and then they are thinking soull of themselve,s hwo they come off, ifthis writign reflects well upon them. And so, in theend, they can't do anything good.

To create is a gift. This week the Mishkan is finishedalong with first Adar,. As we go into second Adar we go into the book of KLeviticus and enter this special month of the leap year, the mystery of the joining the sun to the moon. In the story of the exodus there is the account of God joining heaen to earth, the call from above to below. But the building of the mishkan is the recetion of Sinair on the earth, not vertically, but horizontally, court after court unto the holy of holy. The building of a palce for God draws down God, and God spreads out to encompass Israel, the male Yah in heaven is balanced by the Shecinah, the wide expanding mother beneath, the vertical to the horizontal, the male to the female. God is made one in what my friend remakrs is The Sign of the Cross. That sign is everywhere. What is it that i must join together and cross today? In the Christian scriptures one sign that Jesus is the Chrsit is that he draws what was far to what was near, and what is gentile to what is Jew. The drawing together of opposites is the sign of God's presence, the desire to do so is the sign of holiness/ What is it in my life that I must draw to me today?