A New Year

A new year is an invitation from The Great Choreagrapher to begin a new and do things with correct intention.

What do you need to take that big first step forward so that you can reach the finish line with your dream?

If it is tangible, find it, get it, use it.

If it is more time, carve it out of your days.

If it is sacred time, seal it in your vision.

If it is family time, discuss it and find a way.

If it is financial, plan, save and sell to get it.

If it is community acceptance, ask the best and brightest for their advice and assistance. 

If it is being in better shape, just do it.

If it is a new project. Map it out.

Whatever you want or need now is the time to ask. G-d wants that we should ask. Shmuel's mother Chana taught us this when she went to pray and the High Priest, accused her of being intoxicated. 

She was intoxicated because her soul was pleading desperately for her son, Shmuel, whom she was bestowed in return for her prayer that day, to give birth to and take care of until he was weaned. Then she promised in return to bring him back to the High Temple to serve G-d.

She was willing to make that "deal" for the privilege of bringing his Neshama forward into the world.

How interesting that you are both Shmuel's. and I can say at one time or another I have pleaded with G-d to that same degree asking that G-d will bless you both.

And you both are blessed. I am too.

It is for this reason that I decided to write and suggest you both to consider a daily perspective to strive to live each moment as it comes.

And perhaps you already live like this.  In a life of simplicity and goodness we merit making the best of what life presents to us.

Sometimes we are presented and we miss it. Sometimes we are presented and we look and do not choose it for ourselves. Sometimes we are presented and we grab it. 

What are you going to do with a clean slate? Paint beautiful art? Write a mathematical equation? Leave it blank? 

Complain that it is blank?

This is what Rosh HaShanah is really all about.

The opportunity to wipe the slate clean, implement everything you want sifted with lessons learned in order that you will achieve the fulfillment of bringing your dreams to reality. 

Ok. Dreams come true.

May you be blessed, inscribed and sealed for the best year of your life.

Each of you.

Both of you.

Me too.

Starting now.