Eternal One,
Every one of us has a story
of a journey.
Our lives are filled with
stops and starts,
With endings and beginnings,
With one chapter of our
experiences giving way to yet another
And still another.
Like Abraham, we leave our
parents’ home and the land
Of our birth.
Even if we remain in the same
city all our lives,
We still travel from one
place to another
Perhaps not so much
geographically
But in our values
In the responsibility we take
on as community members and leaders
In our knowledge that can
continue to grow
In the relationships that we
preserve from those other chapters of our lives
And new bonds of fellowship
and friends
All of which we continue to
nurture and deepen with all of our being.
We celebrate triumphs
We face challenges
And we move as best we can
from healing to hope.
God of our days and years, be
with us
Every step of the way.
Help us rescue victory from
defeat.
Enable us to turn conflict
into positive engagement.
Empower us to fill the world
with
Your love, Your Oneness, Your
glory,
Your holiness.
May we go forth on this
Shabbat
And every Shabbat to new
horizons
Amazing vistas, to follow our
viewing of beautiful sunsets
With the promise of the dawn
of each new day.
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