As I shared my earlier post with a dear friend, he seemed a bit surprised. He mentioned that he had always thought that the idea of the High Holidays was simply to work on behavior modification. Even more so, he said that he thought the main thing was to focus on the past and do your best to get rid of it. "You, on the other hand, are speaking of renewal."
Indeed, I have been. The primary focus of this time of year should not be to wallow int he sorrow and upsetness of the wrongs of our past, but to focus on how we can become different people so that our future is not a reflection or repetition of the past.
Strewn as the past may be with the detritus of our mistakes we have to tell ourselves that whatever we may have done in error was all part of God's plan to bring us to the point where he wants us to be today. Our focus today must be on where it is that we wish to head for the future...
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