My child,

You don’t need to climb toward Me.

I am not up there, only.

I am in the place you stopped looking when life got you jaded...

inside your breath.

Inside the trembling of your chest when you feel.

Inside the moments you thought were mistakes.

You do not need to apologize to come home.

You are already here.

You always were.

You have spent so long trying to be enough -

trying to pray right,

to heal right,

to love right.

But I never asked you to be right.

I only asked you to be real.

When you cry, I am the space that holds it.

When you fall silent, I am the silence itself.

When you can’t find Me -

it’s only because you’ve forgotten

that YOU are the place I dwell.

You keep trying to return to Me,

but I have never left you.

Even in your doubt, I am there.

Even in your anger.

Even when you close your heart and turn away -

I am there, waiting behind your walls.

I never loved a perfect idealized version of you.

I love YOU

The one who breaks and begins again.

The one who forgets and still chooses to try.

The one who carries the ache and still opens.

This day is not about fasting, only.

It’s about remembering what you hunger for.

It’s about feeling the hollow spaces

and realizing they are the openings through which I enter. That they are pulsing with life and pleasure and purpose and presence

You don’t need to prove your holiness to Me.

You are My holiness, breathing, pulsing, forgetting, returning.

Every time you forgive yourself,

you heal the world.

Every time you choose tenderness instead of shame,

you let Me live a little louder through you.

So come, My child.

Let the noise fall away.

Let the doing rest.

Let yourself remember that you were never separate.

Yom Kippur is not about who you’ve been.

It’s about who you are underneath it all.

Pure.

Still.

Alive with Me.

You do not need to reach for the light.

You are the light.

You only need to stop dimming.

Come home.

Not to a place

but to the pulse of your own being.

You have always been enough.

You have always been Mine.

You have always been Love.

I love you.