Omer, Day 1

Day One of the Omer is done. Day One celebrates boundless, overflowing lovingkindness in our boundless, overflowing lovingkindness. A world with no boundaries, no defining lines. A mother nursing her newborn babe, and the lasting sensation of this same entire love even when the mother and her babe are both grown old. Me and Mommy walking by the sea. Daddy and Mommy kissing me goodbye, and then kissing each other in the space above my head, when I set out to a faraway land. The way that kiss lasts with me. Chesed in Chesed today was about entire patience when someone didn't understand what I was saying; the patience to repeat and explain, with love and respect, until the words came through. Chesed in Chesed today was about taking in another person's point of view even if it was outrageous and against my values, entertaining their perspective for just long enough to see their world, stand in their shoes, walk their path. There will be time for gevurah, for taking a stand, for asserting our values, for boundaries. But today was to taste that aspect of ourselves which is chesed in chesed, boundless, overflowing lovingkindness in our boundless, overflowing lovingkindness.