Today’s post is from my friend Rabbi Katy Allen, who every year does a series of Earth Etudes for Elul. She bills herself as an earth chaplain, the founder of Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope, an outdoor congregation in Metrowest Boston, the co-founder of the Jewish Climate Action Network, the instigator of the Earth Etudes for Elul, and the author of A Tree of Life: A Story in Word, Image, and Text
and her words and pictures today remind us how connected we are to the planet. Tonight, Sept 24, at 7:00 PM Eastern you can listen to more of these at “An Evening of Etudes” on this free Zoom program which connects us to each other and to our planet.
Arise / לָקוּם
Enough!
Too long have you
stood still. Arise! Draw near
and walk the verdant woodland trails
with Me.
אָז רַב
לָכֶם שֶׁבֶת
לְבַד. עַכְשָׁו לָקוּם.
בֹּאוּ לְתוֹךְ חֹרֶשׁ קָסוּם
אִיתִי.
Inspired by Devarim 1:6