Deuteronomy 33:12 Meaning About Benjamin He Said

To dwell between the shoulders is to rest against something larger, carried close, as a child rides who has stopped struggling to hold on. This is the safety spoken of here, not the absence of danger in the outer world but the deep security of being at home in the present moment.

The covering that lasts all day long is awareness itself, the presence that surrounds you when you cease resisting what is. You do not manufacture this safety by controlling your life. You settle into the aliveness of now, and you find you are already held, already at rest in the source you were leaning on all along.

A person who knows he is loved dwells in safety, and that knowing does the protecting. When someone carries the picture of himself as wanted and prized, the constant bracing against threat loosens, and he moves through the day covered rather than exposed. The safety is a self-image, held from within.

To dwell between the shoulders is to be carried close, the way a favored child rides against a parent all day long. A man settled in that nearness stops working to prove his worth. The worth is already granted. Feeling held changes the whole bearing of a life, and the fear that once drove him quietly drains away.

A child carried on a father's back rides safest exactly where he cannot see the arms that hold him. Much anxious striving comes from believing safety must be gripped and guarded by oneself. Setting down one worry today, and letting oneself be carried instead of scrambling to carry oneself, is the practice this blessing asks for.

The safety stays a promise, a nearness closer than one's own shoulders. The Beloved is no distant guard but the very place between them, where the loved one rests all day long.