Here is something we all need right now
To Shape the World Anew
The sea pushes back off the shore, yielding to gravity with a sigh, not a leaving but a letting go, a retreat into its own deep fullness. The sun relinquishes its hold on the sky only to rise once more at daybreak as the tide rolls back in, a different kind of letting go, an unspooling across the expanse.
And we creatures of earth are granted a fresh start, a chance to gather the debris and shape the world anew. Wholeness is a kind of holiness, the stasis of perfection. But brokenness demands re-creation, a churning cycle of endings and beginnings, the act of pulling hope and brightness from the wreckage, taking the jagged shards and making of them, if not wholeness, a new sort of sacred splendor.
My stepdaughter, who is a rabbi, is offering that reading to her congregation as they approach the month of Elul. She is not the author.
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For better or for worse, we have a lot of broken material to work with right now.
-Laelth
