Jewish Women's Prayer as a Poem



            April 2013    
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I Am A Jewish Woman,
I Speak to God   through Prayer

By  Carol J. Wechsler Blatter

Hear me God

as you heard

my fore-mothers

Sarah, Rebecca, Rachael.

 

Sarah who prayed & wept,

God heard her pleas & cries.

God said she would conceive

and she had a healthy son,

Isaac

who had children.

 

Our generations (dor v  dor)

continued.

 

Rebecca prayed & wept,

God heard her pleas & cries.

God said she would conceive

and she had twin healthy sons,

Esau & Jacob

who had children.

 

Our generations (dor v  dor)

continued.

 

Rachael prayed & wept,

God heard her pleas & cries.

God said she would conceive 

And she had two healthy sons,

Joseph, later Benjamin

who had children.

 

Our generations (dor v  dor)

continued.

 

Praying passionately

I plead to God

like my fore-mothers.

 

Sarah, Rebecca,

& Rachael,

grandmothers they later

became.

 

Dear God

Bless me as you did them,

find me worthy to have

a grandchild.

 


I implore the one God

of Israel-

LISTEN! (Sh ma),

HEAR my prayer

BLESS me with

a grandchild sometime

in my lifetime.

 

In my older age now

I can play-playfully,

unself-consciously

laughing, singing

dancing around

together.

Hugging, tugging

at my waist

my grandchild.

 

Let me know the joy

of  a grandchild's firsts,

so many firsts-

rolling over,

sitting up,

crawling,

walking,

babbling, 

ma-ma, da-da,

pop-pop,

sentences-

short.

 

first school day,

first reader,

first printed words, 

first cursive

first friend.

first poem-

 

first kiss,

first love,

a life of newest firsts.

A grandchild.

 

God, I speak to you in prayerful language

 pleading, pleasing, passionate words

from my soul.

Bless me with a grandchild,

please.

 

~~~~~~~

from the April 2013 Edition of the Jewish Magazine

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