Enter
the Covenant
Selections
from Devarim/Words in Nitzavim
Deut. 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 are the awarenesses of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Of
loving-kindness, courage and perfected faith
Cross
Over the Jordan
Selections
from Devarim/Words in Vayelech Deut. 31.1-30
As you cross over the Jordon, 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
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 but 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
