182 - Yom Kippur

One Hundred Eighty-Two

Yom Kippur

Today is Your sealing day,
The softened wax awaits Your hand;
Secure our future with Your mercy,
Consider our prayer with Your compassion.

We have honored and prayed to You,
Faltered and stumbled,
Closed and opened hands and hearts;
We have called You from our souls.

Alone and empty, we plead before You:
Seal us for life, seal us for blessing;
Gathered, we stand and sway with longing:
Bind us together in life and blessing.

You are set as a seal upon our hearts,
For we are Your creation;
We set our hearts and hands to serve,
Transforming and mending.

Today is Your sealing day,
The closing day of beginnings;
Impress the seal of life upon us,
Clear, clean, unbroken.