Bedlam Farm is for sale, and I expect the New Bedlam Farm will be as magical and beautiful and inspiring for me.

In the Kabbalah, the mystics wrote that when God created humans, he endowed them with a creative spark, and he told them their responsibility was to shine their light unto the world with their stories and inspirations and creations.  The only thing they need fear, he cautioned, was wasting this gift, unique to all the creatures of the world. He warned people not to succumb to fear or greed or hatred. He warned them to abandon war and be compassionate with one another. In the Kabbalah, the spark often reveals itself with lightning, rainbows and the joyous cries of angels and Cherubim. Donkeys, too, are always around, their drovers wiser than priests and rabbis. Take care of the poor, God warned, and  give them reason to be hopeful, and abandon war and take care of Mother Earth, or she will lay waste to human life.

God, says the mystics, was angry with people and he believed they had turned away from his gifts, and he warned them that if they did not answer the call to life, their spirits would weaken and fade, and their lives would empty of joy and hope, and their own inner lights would be darkened out by worry and trouble.

“Don’t the inhabitants of the world realize that I based the world solely on love?,” God asks the prophets and wise men who defend humans to him in the Zohar. “As is written: I said, “The world shall be built on love. By this the world endures.”

I thought of this passage when I went into the Big Barn to get some hay and I saw the afternoon light come through the window and touch the cobwebs on the old beams. Something whispering to me, the light, cautioning me to remember that the world shall be built on love, and to keep the light shining, and by this the world endures.