IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY!

  This morning, as I opened the newspaper and checked on my phone, I saw major problems but not for today. Today I am taking a break in the the name of yet another little Jew joining the tribe. Who knows what great things await this little boy and all his little cousins, so privileged to be able to carry on the heritage of our nation.

So today I say thank you, Hashem. Thank you for the privilege of seeing yet another generation begin to blossom and bloom. Each little one, each of these new little ones, carries promise within. Laughter within. Yes, probably a few tears here and there. You know, little boo boos, but today the world is shiny bright. The light of life new and fresh, with all the wonderful potentialities of all the little ones around the world is overwhelming. I've chosen today to join all celebrating the new little ones joining with us in binding membership.

We celebrate the arrivals. Embrace them with love. Shelter them within our arms and pray that the Lord shelters them beneath His wings and canopy of peace and protection. 

May they all move forward surrounded with peace and love, this new little one and all his cousins, to live lives replete with lives of fulfillment of dreams and hopes, free and joyous participation in the traditions of our people, and indeed all the peoples of the world, for that is indeed what we all crave the most. 

Through the millennia, through the blinding violent actions directed against us, through our yesterdays, this feeling remained strong within us. 

In our todays, we have succeeded greatly but are now facing a reinvigoration of an ugliness we thought, perhaps mistakenly, was gone. But today, with full heart we welcome that familiar light of hope and love, of the people and of the Lord.  We will continue on the same track, with joy, with love, with hopes and dreams, seeking a better today for all the new little ones. 

Despite all the violence and the negativity, despite all we have faced in the yesterdays and the todays, all that has been inflicted upon us, perpetrated upon us, it is still the day of hopes and dreams.  

And so, G-d willing, it will be tomorrow.

In all the tomorrows to come.

May all our new little ones bring airs of hope and love to all of us so desperately in need of it.