March 30, 2024 – A

This is my monument to all that has been lost.
Three stones representative of all the stones
in all the wailing walls that would need to be 
constructed to bear the weight of the world's 
grief, anguish, mourning and sorrow over the long 
years of its existence.

We owe it to ourselves and to one another
and to all who have been victims of ruthlessness,
viciousness, atrocity, abomination and brutality worldwide
to construct our own Wailing Wall Remnant
and stand before it regularly,
calling to mind all of the occasions of genocide,
racism, hatred, pogroms, executions, mass killings,
and wrongful death.

Receiving in our own imagination,
and feeling in our own body,
the horror and terror of those events,
and the hateful wrath of the perpetrators.
And embracing all of it with our own grace
and peace and love.

Infusing all of the evil with the goodness and righteousness 
of those who are moved to cry out for goodness and righteousness.

Blessing it all with the purity of our own impulse for
kindness, and charity, and wonder, and beauty, and generosity--
so that we become well-springs of living water
washing the world clean of its abundant, abhorrent impurities
through its experience of our tenderness, gentleness, 
human-kindness and absolution.

We redeem the world and ourselves with our loving receptivity of the world just as it is at our wailing wall where we experience
the agony of what love must bear every day. And transform ourselves if not the world.

Amen! May it be so! Amen! Every day!

Inspired by my friend Ramble

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