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The VOICE of Inspiration

By Rabbi Rick Sherwin

I sat in the sanctuary this morning

Moved by the teens punctuating the service

With personal statements and prayers

And with their call for action

To end insanity

To end the fear of sending a child to school

To end the fear of being a child in school.

Then action:

Boarding busses, gathering as one

Voicing the call for sanity and safety.

Baby boomers who marched

To render America color blind

To protest the insanity of sending teens to war

in a distant corner of the world

Understand Generation Z

With pride, respect

With our active promise of support.

Yesterday's universal march was vital, critical

Because it affects all of us, each of us

Here at home, in schools,

in churches, in synagogues

In nightclubs, at concerts, everywhere.

It is not a teen issue

It is an American concern

It is a human priority.

I sat in the Sanctuary this morning

Proud of my Heritage calling for reason

Proud of our teens and their families

Who will not accept the status quo

Who listen to the Voice within them,

The call for conscience, the call for morality

The call for responsibility

The call for sanity,

The call for safety

The call for unity

The call for life itself.

The tenth plague was not the slaying of the first born,

It was the alienation of the next generation!

Moses said, “Let my People go”

Pharaoh said no

And the next generation marched with Moses

Causing Egypt to collapse.

Today’s teens, parents, teachers, everyone

Demand, “Release our bondage to violence!”

And if the Pharaohs of today say no

Our own firstborn will find a way

In word and deed

To change America by voting their conscience

To encourage us to vote our conscience

To replace chaos with order, death with life,

To save the American soul

And to save lives.

May the day come when the Oneness of God

Will be reflected in the Oneness of Humanity.

Amen.

 

Rabbi Rick Sherwin, a graduate of UCLA, was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Rabbi Rick’s passion is filling spiritual services and interfaith educational programs with creativity, relevance, dialogue, and humor.

 

 

Inspiration, Rabbi Rick Sherwin

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