 Imagine
yourself in a hallway, an endless corridor before you an offering of
options, a series of dark wood doors each opening widens with opportunity,
each offers an unknowable path, letting you choose, demanding you move,
challenging you to act. Which door do you lunge for?
The hallway is
where I will my way through the world. It is the narrowness that leads
to expansion, where one knock determines whole destinies. This hallway
calls for precision, decision, the analysis of options, the care and
the courage to choose true, exact, correct. This corridor is the tension
before any great act — when the moment
calls for a deeper determination to raise it from the vast heap of
mundane happenings, to let it become a great occurrence in the course
of life.
This night is
dedicated to direction, to making decisions in the dark, to taking
the leap of faith that leads to miracles. From the narrowness of the
Greek domination, the Maccabees chose no less than the doorway to
vastest freedom. They did not remain confined, nor walk through assimilation's
passive door, but rather lunged for the doorway of self-dominion and
independence, fearless of the fight on the other side.
Standing in a
hollow hallway, doorways blind my eyes, I contemplate the path to
my future, light three candles as my guide.
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