May we turn and return
to glimpses of beauty and truth
May this month and the year ahead
be a time of compassion and grace
May healing show the way
may our footsteps show the way
may new melodies guide us
May we lend each other faith
as if it was a cup of sugar (because it is)
May we bake muffins of kindness
pies of gentleness
brownies of generosity
May this year be so sweet that
it inspires a new profession
spiritual dentistry
May we be well-midwifed this year
may we be the ones that our shadows
have been waiting for, this year
May we tend altars of forgiveness
and drink often from their waters
May our breadcrumbs feed the birds of transformation
May there be a week in the coming year
when all we read is children’s books
May these next 40 days be a time
when we clean all of our own and each other’s mirrors
so that we may then celebrate our own place
in Creation and in Torah
May we then dance about and around the Torah of our own lives
and may we write and live
the Torah of our own lives
May moonlight shine upon our
joy and celebration and blessed sleep this year
May the sparks of liberation
and the yuntif candles burn away any last bits of regret
and shame and disconnection
May we enter into this turning time whole
may it be a time of mending quilts
and returning long-borrowed books
May it be a time of flowing ink from the pens of wisdom
and flowing tears from the eyes of hope
