Lech Lecha: Go

This week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha,
opens with a call: Go.
You.
Each of you, all of you,
Go.

Go from the expectations that constrict you.
Go from the stories that have defined you.
Go from the shoulds that limit who you can be.

Go,
and take with you what inspires strength and love.

Where you are going,
and who you will you become
is yet unknown.

Go anyway.
As you take each step, the path will appear.

And the goal of this journey?

The reason to leap,
to struggle, to let go, to risk?
The reason to rise and fall
and rise again and again?

Is to be a blessing.

To discover anew the shape of our offerings,
the good that we are
and the many ways
the Divine seeks to come through us into the world.

Lech Lecha.
Go deep.
Reach high.
Because the way we live matters,
not just for ourselves
but for all those who will someday call us ancestor.

The path awaits our willingness.
The world awaits our blessings
Go.