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If this is your first time reading this series of my blog, please take a moment and read the introduction Elul Journey: A New Year Is Emerging – 5775 – http://t.co/Y6vmXdO6GJ
Today is the first day following Rosh Hodesh (beginning of the month) Elul; it is a time to reflect and to choose ways in which I can best move forward. While it is not easy to navigate life’s journeys, I always get to decide how to approach my life. In this moment, I am choosing to walk gently and embrace each step with openness. As I say this, I also realize that this would be a good time for a reality check.
One of my most favorite sayings in this world is:
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet”
This one saying is a guide that stays with me each and every day. In fact, I often carry Rilke’s book with me wherever I go; I need this reminder that while the steps of life’s journey can be overwhelming, I know that I am not the only one who is trying to wrestle with the questions of what is unsolved in my heart. Nearly every day, I ask myself:
- Am I following my heart?
- Am I impacting people/the world for good?
- How can I be a healthier person?
- With all that I have done for my sons, is it enough? In what ways did I and do I fall short?
- Do I walk gently in the world?
- What do I need to be more whole? more beautiful?
- Can I find a way to support myself financially while following my passion?
- Is there a way to make writing an active part of my professional life?
- Have I done all that I can do in order to repent for any wrong-doings I have done?
- Am I remembering to count my blessings and to find light as I walk through the world?
The questions that plague me are never-ending. And yet, I am fortunate, instead of letting them trouble me, I use them to empower me so that I may move forward with an open and loving heart, mind, and soul.
Today is Day 1 of my Elul Journey. I am excited that while it is only 10:45 AM, I have accomplished nearly all of the six daily goals Yay!
Don’t forget to ‘live the questions now’.
Make today a great day!
With love and light,
~Chava
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