Rabbi Crawley: Not Optimistic | Yom Kippur 5782 Sermon
Not Optimistic
Rabbi Stephanie Crawley
Yom Kippur 5782/2021
Washington, DC
There is a fire in my heart
Shut up in my bones –
Says the prophet Jeremiah –
I am on fire – I say
My world is burning
My country is fractured
My friends distanced
Myself isolated
There is a fire in my heart –
I feel it burn in my bones
Too much – Too much.
It’s all too much.
Some days,
The fire is slower
Almost ignorable
And then another climate report
Another shooting
Another war or failure of justice
Another attempt to take away my rights
Another moment of progress for progress’s sake
Another child who has to rebuild their future in a new home once more…