Is it Too Late? Omer Day 12

Hod of Gevurah

by Judith Felsen

Is it too late to beg forgiveness of a world

seen only through the eyes of our desires,

heard only through our ears awaiting affirmation

of our deals and continuous demands?

Is it too late to mend our sight as we adjust

from our myopia to corrected long term vision?

Is it too late to make repairs to reconstruct

our damage to Your tattered footstool

scarred by our constant battering?

Is it too late for You to hear our humbled cries

and yearning in our delayed efforts to return

Your world to You?

We pray with muddied hands washed in polluted waters

as we bend our knees in tending poisoned soils.

We chant with voices damaged an atmosphere

consumed by our debris.

This is our midnight.

We  live today in  pyramids we built

in deals conspired with our own oppressors.

And yet we seek to quickly leave mitzrayim of our making,

undeserving of redemption’s path and barely willing

to assume Your yoke.

With humbleness and new restraint we follow You

on paths unknown into a desert we both crave and fear.

With sadness and our own regret we slowly see the imprint

of our lower selves upon Your world, as we now ask, 

“Is it too late for yet another chance,

as we transform the makings of our golden calf into a dwelling place

that is Your home?”

Today is the twelfth day, which is one week and five days of the Omer.
Today is the twelfth day, which is one week and five days of the journey from bondage to revelation.

Copyright 2015  Judith E. Felsen, Ph. D. Used by permission.

Judith Felsen holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, certificates in hypnotherapy, NLP, Eriksonian Hypnosis, and Sacred Plant Medicine. She is a dancer of sacred circle dance, an AMC kitchen crew, trail information volunteer, trail adopter, and daily student of Torah and Judaism. She is enrolled in Rabbinical Seminary International. She has studied Buddhism, A Course in Miracles, and other mystical traditions. She is a hiker, walker, runner, and lives in the White Mountains with her husband and two large dogs. Her life centers around her Jewish studies and daily application.