Perhaps: A Prayer with God for the World, a prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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	Perhaps: A Prayer with God for the World
	Dear God, Holy One, Beloved, This fragile, beautiful world of ours stands at a precipice. It always has. Perhaps it always will. Every moment seems to be a crossroad. Perhaps that was the plan. Perhaps there was no plan.
	But we promise again, Mother of All: You’ve got us. And we’ve got a plan.
	Perhaps, Divine Mystery, that’s You, in us. Perhaps our yearning for a more created world is truly Your Spirit stirring in our minds’ eyes, inspiring us to be the change we dream to see.
	Perhaps, after all, Yours has never been a plan, but rather seeds of sacred vision. Perhaps You, Dear One, and we, your children, are learning every day and doing our best to see more clearly and feel more fiercely.
	God, that is a true gift: to see with Your Eyes and to love with Your Love.
	For these blessings, and the gift of more days in which to be of service with You as partners in Creation, may we be ever thankful.
	We know we are called to repair that which remains broken. And so, we pray: May we walk humbly but not too humbly as we channel Your Spirit, coursing through our bodies to bring more justice, more kindness, more hope, and more love into the world.
	May the coming days find us ever ready to walk in Your ways by walking with each other to do with our bodies what we often ask of You: to see, to discover, to build a truly beautiful world, a world of Ḥesed, of Love. Amen.

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Menachem Creditor

Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and was the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. A frequent speaker in communities and campuses around the United States and Israel with over 1 million views of his online videos and essays, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. His 22 books and 6 albums of original music include the global anthem "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" and the anthologies "When We Turned Within" and "None Shall Make Them Afraid." He has been involved in the leadership of American Jewish World Service, AIPAC, the Rabbinical Assembly, and the One America Movement, an organization dedicated to bringing together Americans of different faiths and opinions. He and his wife Neshama Carlebach live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

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