I’m no stranger to ambition
I can go on that five a.m. run
Achieve countless educational degrees
Create the home, the family of my dreams
Maintaining order throughout the chaos
Work past the daylight hours for a better world
I endure
I give from the raw depth of my soul
At the bedside of illness with a homemade meal
Whole body tears in a puddle on the floor
A morning kiss goodbye before the vulnerable day ahead
And memories dressed all in black saying one final goodbye
The joyful singing of Shehekheyanu at a newborn life
I love
And then….
There are the moments
That cause me to have to
Love endurance
To read the same books
To scrape the same food off the floor
To play with the same toys everyday
To repeat and repeat and repeat
With patience
With intention
With humility
Reliably
I must love endurance
I must endure to love
For Netzach (endurance)
Must be done out of HesedLit. Kindness It is said in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) that the world stands on three things: Torah (learning), Avodah (worship), and Gemilut Hasidim (acts of kindness). (love)
