Enter the Covenant - Cross over the Jordan

Enter the Covenant
Selections from Devarim/Words in Nitzavim Deuteronomy 29.9-30.20

We stand this day all of us before God
Let us enter again into the sacred covenant

(“If you’ll be our God, we’ll be your people”
“If you’ll be my people, I’ll be your God”)

Thus God is established as our beloved
And we are established as God’s people

As we return to God and heed these teachings
With all heart and soul, God restores our fortunes
(As we walk the Blessing Way, we too are blessed)

God is bringing us together from the four corners of the earth
Into the land our ancestors occupied
(An awakened state. All our parts come together in oneness)

As we walk in these teachings
God opens our hearts to love all and serve all

We experience abounding prosperity in all our undertakings
God delights in our well-being

Set before us this day is life or death, prosperity or adversity
Heaven and earth are called and present to witness our choices

Surely this isn’t baffling to you – or beyond your reach
Choose life, choose love, choose the Lord your God

Walk in the way of these teachings; thrive and increase

By following these teachings and holding fast to their source
We will live and long endure in this Promised Land

Which is the awarenesses of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
(Of loving-kindness, courage and perfected faith)

Cross Over the Jordan
Selections from Devarim/Words in Vayelech Deuteronomy 31.1-30

As you cross over the Jordan, God crosses at your head
(As we transcend, we are crowned with divinity)

Destroying the nations already there (Fear, worry, greed

Dullness, criticism, sense of lack and self-righteousness)

And Joshua (the invincible) goes over before you
Now be strong and of good courage
It’s Yah who goes with you and God doesn’t fail or forsake you

To the Joshua (in us) God says:
Go with the people into the land and cause them to inherit it
I go before you; fear nothing

Teach this song to your children and students
A song of witnessing (observing without judging)
A song bringing us into a land flowing with milk and honey

A song never forgotten for all generations, revealing
God is the witness, the omniscient and the omnipresent

Assemble all the people and speak these teachings
That all may hear and have awe before God
And be moved to walk in the Way

And children to come will also hear and learn the Way
In doing this, you will live long in the land over the Jordan
(A Promised Land -- of illumination)

Take this book of wisdom-instruction and put it (in your heart)
Beside the Ark of the Covenant with God

Eat your fill. As you wax fat (be careful not to)
Turn to other gods (but look within for) the Levities
(The holiness within) bearing the Ark of the Covenant

Assemble all your elders and leaders and call heaven and earth
To witness (this revelation that) I am alive and in your midst

Moses is writing the song of the Torah this very day
Teaching the letters and words to us even now
(And listen:) Singing this song into our ears and into our hearts