by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen
We
have, to date, failed to stop the runaway train of climate change. On
this holiest day of the Jewish calendar, we must ask ourselves, How can
we find and extract beauty from the pain of our failure? What does it
take for us to put love, compassion, and hope at the center of our
lives, and in the process transform both ourselves and the world around
us into something far more beautiful than anything we have known before?
Part of what it takes is determination and an unwillingness to give up. We can learn something about determination from mushrooms, which push their way up through whatever is needed in order for their fruiting bodies to reach the air.
Katy Z. Allen |
We can learn something of determination from seedlings and from trees. |
Mary North Allen |
We can learn something of determination from the rebirth of the Jewish people after the tragedy of the Holocaust. So many survivors refused to let their spirits die, but to go on living, and, each in his or her own way, to create.a small, perhaps imperfect, oasis of beauty, the essence of life.
On this holy day, and every day, what keeps you determined to live with love, compassion, and hope?
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