Day 41: Yesod she’b’Yesod, Ultimate Foundation
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זֶה־הַ֭יּוֹם עָשָׂ֣ה יְהֹוָ֑ה נָגִ֖ילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָ֣ה בֽוֹ׃
This is the day God has made; let’s rejoice and be happy in it!
(Psalms 118:24)
This morning, oh my. So beautiful! Sunny, breezy, temps right on the border between warm and cool. Deep blue sky.
Charles looked up from his coffee and said, “This is it.”
It’s just an expression. But I thought about it all day. This is it: what’s really real. The ideal form of a day.
The other days, well, we stumble through them. We tolerate them. The cold ones, dreary ones, damp ones. They are just stepping stones on the way to this perfect day. The day we are *really* living.
And yet. There’s more to life than perfection.
This is the day.
QUESTIONS
In what season are you most likely to find a perfect day? Imagine or remember such a day.
What is the light like, the air, the temperature, the sounds? As you reflect on this, where do you remember or imagine being?
How do you feel when a day is this perfect? Do you feel spiritual feelings, like joy, yearning, or peace?
In what sense does this kind of day set a standard for you? Is it the standard, and most days don’t measure up? Or is it so extraordinary it blows past a standard day?
On such days, does God (or spirit or the divine) feel especially present? Especially superfluous? Or?
New to the Omer? Here’s a short guide to the theory and practice. And here’s a resource for counting every day.
Image: Apple blossoms, Riley Park Community Garden, photo by Laura Duhan-Kaplan.
