To move past all of the challenges we have experienced and live ‘as if’ we are on the other side might take a bit of imagination and a good dose of faith. But imagination and faith are made more real by the practices we take on – daily, weekly and monthly.
What We Can Learn From Difference
Did you feel left out sometimes? Did you ever wish that people saw you for who you know you are on the inside instead of what they can see from the outside?
Looking to Our Elders
The nurturing flow goes in both directions. We can look to our elders for guidance and perspective, and share their stories of resilience with our children. In parallel, we can help our elders come into closer contact with our children so that they can be enlivened by them as well.
Education and the Long Middle
While schools can offer an official measure of our children around how they are progressing in acquiring the skills, tools, and competencies to function as citizens of the world, when children struggle at school, our homes can offer an important corrective.
Let it Rain! (in good measure)
There is another lesson I am learning from the prayer for rain that we said at the very end of the prayers on Shemini Atzeret at the end of the Jewish holiday cycle. It struck me this year as particularly poignant…Rain should fall.
