November 18, 2003
From Rabbi Walter

My Thanksgiving Prayer

God of color.
God of yellow dawns and orange dusks,
Of plush green fields and cracked, brown river beds,
Of blue skies and gray clouds.
God of rich, black earth and the white snow that covers it.
God of golden sunshine and clear, lucid raindrops.

God of shapes.
God of pentagons and hexagons and squares.
Of elliptical orbits and triangular cones,
Of perfect circles and imperfect spheres.
God of trapezoids and rectangles and straight lines and curves.

God of sizes.
God of giant sequoias and tiny bacteria,
Of bottomless caverns and lofty mountain peaks,
Of mustard seeds and acorns and spores.
God of heights and depths and breadths.

God of all creation.
God of everthing that inhabits the earth.
And the earth and universe itself.
Thank You for all Your creation with its endless variety,
And for our senses with which we perceive the myriad wonders of
Your creation.

 

 

Rabbi's Message

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