New Year’s Blessing

Two hands held open together, palms up, against a soft, blurred outdoor sky background.
 
Every year a prayer for the future.
We meet the challenge of the future with more than a wish
with more than happy new year though that’s the custom of the land.
Every year ends in ellipses . . .
I’ll be right back.
This year the seam between the end of our Book
And beginning (again) when
War began,
And at the new year
We ended Genesis
Began Exodus.
We are all over seams.
Better a gift, an intention, an understanding between us
we are trying to know something when knowing is not
everything.
Only Everything is everything.
We can begin with an intention, a posture to do better.
A transformative image for better days ahead
may it come to us for good (better anyway):
In our Book G*d created the world as a home for the Spirit.
A day at a time.
Amen.

 

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