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April 23, 2015

Today was a great day! We installed four water-saving toilets at the Pico Union Project to replace our agéd commodes. One may ask, what can one building's “flush” do for a state-wide drought? Is it not but a drop in the proverbial bucket? A bucket which we might eventually kick over. But, I'm not talking about kicking the bucket…I'm talking about the drops.

In challenging times, it's easy to become cynical, doubting the power of any person to matter, let alone make a difference. The work of repairing the world is hard. And to constantly be doing the work is equally hard. But if you've sung like a mad prophet for something good ‘til your voice is just a whisper. If you've written exactly what you believe ‘til your fingers feel numb. If you've forgotten to eat because you've so enjoyed the passing hours. If you sleep each night dreaming and rise hungry for each day…then, you are likely doing the work that can change your world. Because you send a jolt through it. You tell the world, just by being: Wake up! We know the cliche “live life to the fullest.” But what I'm saying is…empty yourself out!

Life starts when we wholly give ourselves to it. When we're an irreparable leak…into that reduced-flush bucket.

Zeh hayom asah Adonai, nagilah v’nismecha vo. Today is a great day Adonai has made, let's celebrate and rejoice in it.
Psalm: 118

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