The
River Jordan makes this sea with sparkling water from the hills. So it laughs in the sunshine. And people build their homes near to it,
birds their nests; and every kind of life is happier because it is here.
The
River Jordan flows on south into another sea.
Here there is no splash of fish, no fluttering leaf, no song of birds,
and no children’s laughter. The air
hangs heavy above its waters and neither people nor animals will drink here.
This
is the difference:
The
Sea of Galilee receives but does not keep the Jordan. For every drop that flows into it another
drop flows out. The giving and receiving
go on in equal measure.
The
other sea is shrewder, hoarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous
impulse. Every drop it gets, it keeps.
The
Sea of Galilee gives and lives.
This
other sea cannot sustain life. It is
named the Dead Sea.
There
are two seas in the Land of Israel.
There
are two kinds of people in the world.
---by "The New Mahzor" for Rash Hashana and Yom Kippur, Compiled and edited by Rabbi Sidney Greenberg and Rabbi Jonathan D. Levine. From WI Ann Conf.
God Is Still In Control!
Miss Lladale Carey
Web Content Producer
www.umcgiving.org
lcarey@umcom.org
---by "The New Mahzor" for Rash Hashana and Yom Kippur, Compiled and edited by Rabbi Sidney Greenberg and Rabbi Jonathan D. Levine. From WI Ann Conf.
God Is Still In Control!
Miss Lladale Carey
Web Content Producer
www.umcgiving.org
lcarey@umcom.org
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