Friends

I didn't do it on my own

You held my hand

You, and you, and you

You rolled up your sleeves

When I despaired

Buried under the rubble

You forged the path with me

I taste the freedom and the triumph

And I'm grateful 

For the blessings,

Are so much sweeter

When we are United together

Different people have lifted me up

At different stages in my life

And pulled me through when I didn't know

What the next day would bring

And life is hectic and it's hard

But it's beautiful

*Composition date unknown. Found an old file of mine..

Lech Lecha- Hello Brooklyn

 Go forth - from what you thought would be your forever home

Uproot your family, your routine, to start again in a new place

Pack your bags and relocate- to the land where you first set down roots together

 I will send an angel to accompany you on your journey

And your friends will greet you at your destination

They will steady you when you falter

They will lift you up when the waves knock you down

For I will send you challenges, 

And In the end you will see great blessings

Its all in My master plan

You are here on My mission and I will protect you always.

Rosh Hashanah

 Its Rosh Hashanah and I've come to daven for the first time, in my new shul in my new neighborhood. With a toddler on my hip and a growing belly I look like the ladies all around me, but I have a lump in my throat. I remember the feelings of despair, hoping year after year that I'd have a baby. I  remember when it was difficult to go outside for it seemed that everyone around me was pregnant. Holding my healthy child, surrounded by the promise of new lives growing, the feelings still come back to me and they are real and raw like yesterday. Somewhere.. in this shul or in another, is a woman crying silently, hoping, praying for the new year to bring her the blessing of children. To that woman: I may look like everyone else but I see you, I feel your pain, and I pray that next year you'll have your own baby on your lap.