Until then

Until the day when we really have to say goodbye forever,

Until then

Let us live tomorrow as a perfect promise of what we still hope to achieve today.

Until then

Fill us with the love we need like oxygen to breathe life in fully.

Until then

open our eyes

So that we may see clearly the beauty and the love that surrounded us from our very beginnings as people

to our present struggles and will always live within us.

Until then,

Until that final day on this earth,

Give us the confidence to know that somehow

whether through faith or grace or undying memory ,

we will be together

Until then

May we live in the eternity of the blessings we enjoy in this moment

in peace and in love

Amen

Rabbi Lance J Sussman, Ph.D. November 8, 2020

(from his hospital bed)