Day 25
“Lend me your hand and we’ll conquer them all
but lend me your heart and I won’t let you fall.
Lend me your eyes, I’ll change what you see
but your soul you must keep, totally free.
. . .
In these bodies we live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life.
”
Waking up to the rest of your life
This Three of Fire card shows a grounded figure flanked on each side by strength and purpose, gazing out over their emotional landscape as the sun sets on this season.
It's time to call home the ships you've been sending out this month. The reflection and action you have done, the lessons you have learned about yourself in the process.
How will you incorporate them into the rest of your life? It is often easy to become zealous for change as the year turns, or in other big transition moments. But the test of teshuvah is in everyday life.
It's time now to begin the process of coming back out of your shell. Your turned-inward face must now turn back to face the rest of the world, and shine your new illumination on it.
How are have you been changed by this season of teshuvah?
How will your change impact your everyday life? How will it affect the world around you?
Compassionate One, remember
we are Your children
help us to know again
that we are cradled
during these awesome days
of changing light
we want to return
to Your lap, to Your arms
remind us how to believe
that we are loved
not for our achievements
but because we are Yours
as the moon of Elul wanes
and the new year rushes in
hear us with compassion
enfold us, don’t let us go