Deuteronomy 30:15-20
9/24/11
We do pretty well looking ahead for one or two generations,
maybe even three. But twenty? Two hundred? That’s living the way G-d implores…
We must return, again and again and again, to G-d. Fully.
Completely. With all our heart and soul!
Here’s the thing – we set up cycles, habits, even genetic
traits that are passed on from generation to generation. We do not know our
ancestors. Not their names, their habits, their preferences or their heartbreaks.
We only know that they loved and served God enough to bring us forth. Somehow
we got here.
Here. Now.
Born of unknown ancestry, and yet they (the individuals, the
collective) live on in us. And the more we return, open to, accept God, the
more we give to future generations to inherit. The land, the landscape, the
spirit, the rituals, the habits, the genes, the wealth, the poverty, whatever
we were gifted with and all that came before lives in us and through us and on
into the vast unknown we call “the future.”
God says, “return to me” and we do, with open hearts, minds,
souls, even if it’s all for the future, but also for now. We live for the
future but also for now. We live, so that we may live. So that we may grow in
our understanding of our place in the chain of ancestry, just like Moses,
Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Rebecca, Naomi…
The more we live now with God, the more we may live on in
the future, through the generations.
So Live!
Open-hearted, open-souled, open-minded, open-spirited
living. There is so much to come!
May it all be sweet. Sweet enough to reach those far far ahead whom we will never meet, but they will know anyway. They will know.
May it all be sweet. Sweet enough to reach those far far ahead whom we will never meet, but they will know anyway. They will know.
No comments:
Post a Comment