After a long period of not being able to read your beautiful writing (crazy pace of life, and I need quiet to appreciate your wonderfully articulated thoughts)--I am so happy to be back! As I read Forgetting and Remembering, I keep thinking of a beautiful prayer/poem written by my rabbi, --who is an author and poet---and which encompasses the title of your newsletter, This Very Moment. I read it often, and want to share it with you:
Patience
by Rabbi Karyn Kedar
Steady yourself. Living takes time.
Each moment is a moment to be lived.
Each emotion is to be felt.
We are here in this world to learn and grow.
Fear can teach. Confusion instructs. Sadness informs.
Love elevates.
Take the time to experience each breath.
Especially the ones that make you want to run.
Patience. Steady.
Rush and race banish joy and peace.
There is wonder to experience if you take the time.
This found that buried part of me
Began the excavation, as they do for fossils,
With tiny tools, scraping away bit by bit
It could take a long time,
but then what is time, really
except our forgetting of this eternal now
Thank you Rob, for this shared remembrance ❤️🙏🏻😎
“This eternal now…” I love that phrase. Thank you for sharing your thoughts so beautifully.
After a long period of not being able to read your beautiful writing (crazy pace of life, and I need quiet to appreciate your wonderfully articulated thoughts)--I am so happy to be back! As I read Forgetting and Remembering, I keep thinking of a beautiful prayer/poem written by my rabbi, --who is an author and poet---and which encompasses the title of your newsletter, This Very Moment. I read it often, and want to share it with you:
Patience
by Rabbi Karyn Kedar
Steady yourself. Living takes time.
Each moment is a moment to be lived.
Each emotion is to be felt.
We are here in this world to learn and grow.
Fear can teach. Confusion instructs. Sadness informs.
Love elevates.
Take the time to experience each breath.
Especially the ones that make you want to run.
Patience. Steady.
Rush and race banish joy and peace.
There is wonder to experience if you take the time.
Step softly and deliberately.
What lingers must be lived and
Once lived completely passes in its own time.
To force the natural rhythms of life
Is to deny yourself of the
Divine wisdom in each experience.
Beautiful and vulnerable. Thank you, Rob.
So beautiful. Thank you