This is one of the most meaningful gifts I have ever received.

At every retreat experience we had, before it was time for each human to take the "hot seat" and go into their expansion session I would hold up a simple lined paper with one word written on it:

Reverence.

The room would get silent as we were present with the person in front of us.

Behold a soul. A moment of reverence and awe for who they are and the breathtaking light of their being. We let it take our breath away.

In the dictionary, the definition of Reverence is:

"A deep experience of profound respect, and an often humbling awe considering the vastness in front of you."

A group of women from around the world decided to create art out of that moment we shared. So instead of holding the paper, we can hold this art up. Created to invoke AWE in ourselves, for others, for this world, for Hashem.

Thank you to the women from NY, NJ, Florida, Utah, Canada, and Israel who came on the Italy and Morocco retreats for bringing more ART into the world.

To me, Reverence is the antidote for so many things. For pedestaling ourselves and others, for making ourselves small or too big, for worthiness, for respect of ourselves, others, and the world. It ignites more generosity of spirit, compassion, forgiveness, standards and discernment.

How do we recover Reverence for every living being? Feel the magnitude of divinity inside of every human? So that it can be unleashed?

How can we open up our eyes to see what is right in front of us - the vastness of the beauty of the sacredness that is the mundane?

I believe in part refinding and refining Reverence comes from re-discovering humanity - ours and others. The human, humane, beating heart, fleshy us/you/them/me that's inside of all of us.

When we remember that we are all made of the same matter - flesh, bones, divinity - we remember that we matter, so very much.

No one who truly knew they mattered would do anything other than care, care, care about all others' inner Be-ing.

Everything is sacred when we take time to notice.