The Intention

Healing is both an exercise
and an understanding
and yet not of the will
nor of the intention
It is a wisdom
and a deeper knowledge
of the daily swing
of life and death
in all creation.
There is defeat
to overcome
and acceptance of living
to be established
and always
there must be hope.
Not hope of healing
but the hope which informs
the coming moment
and gives it reason.
The hope which is
each man's breath
the certainty of love
and of loving.

Death may live
in the living
and healing rise
in the dying
For whom the natural end
is part of the gathering
and the harvest
to be expected
To know healing
is to know that
all life is one
and there is no beginning
and no end
and the intention is loving.

Margaret Torrie

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REGAINING OUR BALANCE - A SERVICE OF HEALING, HOPE, AND RENEWAL, FOR YOM KIPPUR AFTERNOON of MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM by Rabbi David Straus, Rabbi Ethan Franzel, and Cantor Marshall Portnoy

Much also appears at Union for Reform Judaism in Google generated html version. Likewise Purdey Tributes contains The Intention. It is introduced there by:

This poem by Margaret Torrie springs to mind.

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