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Well, it wasn't a Seder, but I lit candles, poured wine & called on absent friends & dead parents. Toasted Governor Newsom.
Cursed Trump, I admit it.
I stopped doing Passover years ago when DH wanted to do a drush on Buddhism (I ask you, is this the time? No, not really, when you're asking me to knock myself out for a Seder). We've been together nearly 40 years.
But what I am is a Mythologist (trust me, I'm a doctor) and someone more on the Goddess path than otherwise, and I couldn't get this plague and this wannabe Pharoah out of my mind.
I started an altar a week ago. Tonight we had candles and wine with our dinner, and we both toasted our absent beloveds, living and dead. Tomorrow I will harvest bitter herbs from my garden to add to my altar. Tonight, at last, the salt water of my tears is released.
There are lessons for us today in this thousands-years old story. Persevere. Keep going. Though the desert seems to go on forever, you will find the well of living water when you need it most. Drink deep. Live to tell the tale.
I raise my glass to you all, my friends.
dhill926
(16,336 posts)glass is raised back...
I thought this post would disappear.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,571 posts)I am deeply moved.
I am not Jewish at all, nor am I religious. Spiritual, probably.
I love these lessons. They are ancient. We must not forget them, ever.
These are special lines: Though the desert seems to go on forever, you will find the well of living water when you need it most. Drink deep. Live to tell the tale.
Thank you!
Hekate
(90,627 posts)To you
whathehell
(29,059 posts)Absolutely.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)whathehell
(29,059 posts)I am bookmarking this.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)A glass to you and yours as well.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)herding cats
(19,558 posts)And, to everyone. We all need to preserve now more than ever.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)Now more than ever.
niyad
(113,219 posts)May the peace of the Goddess be ever in your heart.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 9, 2020, 04:10 AM - Edit history (1)
In all Her names.
brer cat
(24,546 posts)Yes, there are lessons there. Thanks, Hekate.
sheshe2
(83,718 posts)Beautiful words.