We’ll Try Anyway: B’reishit 5785

It only took two humans

       at the Beginning

for blame to come into existence

He pointed at her

She pointed at the snake

(who slithered away without a word)

And their children were no better

Trying to best each other

Playing out their sibling insecurities theologically

To the point of fratricide, and over what?

Who God liked better?

Come on.

Talk about Freudian, Egos and Transference!

A wise woman taught:

God ends up saying (to the remaining child

and to his parents before him)

Just Do Better

Not sure how?
(God continued a few generations later

when it seemed humanity couldn’t quite get there on their own)

I’ll write you A Guide Book

I’ll point you A Way

I’ll provide A Path, if only you will follow

            Will you follow? You won’t, but we’ll try anyway.

We have The Book

And each year we squint and stretch and try

to make sense of it

to make a life of it

And each year . . .

Well let’s just say we’re still playing the blame game

If I had a dollar for every finger pointed this year…

Instead I have tears and regrets

My own fingers are guilty and my heart is heavy

And I’m meant to be the Teacher of The Book!

Suffice it to say, there’s a lot to be done

More to be learned

More trials to test ourselves against

More broken shards to collect and repair

More More More

And, more wisdom to be be gleaned

And more hands to do the work

And more beauty to remind us why

And more love to remind us why

And more and more and more

Good thing we’re at the Beginning

again
At the beginning we are new and hopeful

we died on the mountain and lived to tell the tale

and try again

So here we go

Maybe this time we can point The Way instead of

pointing the blame

Will we? Possibly not. But we’ll try anyway.