May

The Medrash on Shir HaShirim (5:2) says that if we open an opening for G-d the size of the eye of a needle then G-d will make it into the opening the size of a hall. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rav of The Kotel asks why the metaphors aren't parallel. The contrast to an opening the size of a large celebration hall should be an opening the size of a small mouse hole. He notes that the image of a needle is evoked because the eye of a needle is where a thread is threaded so that it can sew. And sewing is a form of connecting. There is, perhaps, an allusion here that we have to not just be open, but be open to connection (to G-d, our self, others) and then G-d will take that openness to connection and work with it, enlarge it. A sincere, real friend who I admire shared this quote today. And her sharing and the back and forth that followed it got me thinking.

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May-

G-d bless those who are down with dark world views
G-d bless the empaths and the narcissists too,

G-d bless the sharp tongued; the rubber and the glue
G-d bless the judgers, including me and you

G-d bless the stories that we tell inside our heads
G-d bless us to connect our needles to His thread