On this Yom Kippur open yourself up to a 360 degree life.
See you at CSS,
Rabbi Alex
I Finally Saw the Sky Today
I finally saw the sky today.
How could it be missed?
With its swirling clouds, layered with a mixture
of white and gray,
and patches of pure blue –
blue so deep and free
it seemed impossible that anything else,
even stars,
could ever envelop it.
And, yet, I had missed it the day before,
and the day before that,
and possibly the day before that.
So engrossed by what was in front of me,
sometimes behind,
that I had forgotten how a little tilt of my head upward
could reveal so much.
What would it take –
a reflection off of someone’s eyeglasses,
a run in with a tall glass building,,
an airplane ride?
What would it take to jolt myself,
just enough
to not only listen into our world,
but to what lies beyond that world,
into the far away, real or imagined,
landscape of sky and space
I realized only by changing my frontal focus
could I ever hope to achieve
a 360 degree life,
a life that soared even in the mundane,
a life that was ephemeral.
Last Updated on 09/29/2017 by wpadm