AM Inspiration

These days are hard. Physically difficult. There are many restrictions on what we can and cannot do. It is a dark time. A dangerous time. Emotionally difficult. We are supposed to be in mourning for something we never had, a life we never experienced. For me, and for most people I know T'Sha B'av is really hard. We feel like we cannot relate. I feel like I cannot relate. But if you think about the root of the day, its not too hard to connect. Its a day mourning destruction. It is a day mourning the loss of relationship. G-d is in galut- He is in exile. His Shechina has no home. His children have lost their way. We are so confused and so lost we don't know which way is up, cant tell right from wrong. We are estranged from our Father and that loss of relationship is what we are mourning more than anything else. We have all experienced estrangement, We have all experienced heartache and the pain that comes from a dissolved or distanced relationship. This is not foreign t...

i was sitting outside watching the rain..thinking how much i would love to just take off and take a stroll right in the middle of the storm. there is just something magical and simply wonderful about walking barefoot bareheaded in the rain. No one is walking slow enough to see your face. It is just you, your thoughts, the droplets washing away any shred of negativity you could possibly have. i was thinking about the dichotomy of our lives-the dissonance which maintains residence in our thoughts. mine anyways. I'm often struck by enormity of the world. The universe. The worlds beyond our own. The space we occupy is so minuscule, the word minuscule seems generous. There were worlds before ours. There are galaxies that we have yet to discover. The complexities of our own planet still baffle the brightest human minds. the world is FREAKIN HUGE! and that must mean, that   its Creator must be all that much bigger. He is running and orchestrating it all. But then I also have learned...