What if we got everything we want?
I'm almost done with my 34th day of mourning and fasting over something lost long before I was born. And because of that, for most of my life, Tish'a B'Av has been a detached sort of mourning. How can I mourn the loss of something I never had? I never stood in the courtyard of God's house, never saw the miracle of the wind-proof column of smoke, never heard the sweet songs of the Levites. I don't even know the tunes! I never got to see the radiance of the Kohen Gadol's face as he exited the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, KNOWING that God had forgiven us for our sins. I never had the closeness to God that I cry for having lost. As for why I should bother crying at all, I'll get to that another time.
But what if I could make the country into anything I wanted? That's what my next few posts are going to be about. And I would LOVE it if anyone reading would give me feedback, positive OR negative.
Let's start taking all our "What if"s and turning them into "When"s.
