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It\u2019s brief enough to share in its entirety, and deep enough to ponder for a lifetime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A call comes to me because of Seir: \u2018Guard, what of the night? Guard, what of the night? The Watchman said, \u2018Morning is coming, but also night. If you seek, seek, repent and come (21:11).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The call, from no one in particular, is one of fear and yearning. After standing watch throughout the long darkness, what do I need to know? You who stood guard, tell me where do we stand now? You can hear the fear in the question, and the forced courage of asking it nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the answer is unvarnished honesty. No false cover of beauty to the raw reality that we face together. Morning is coming. We have survived the terror of the dark. The light is dawning and we will see the sun again. But after that daylight, another stretch of darkness awaits. It will grow again cold and terrifying. The cycle will continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet all is not an endless cycle of doom. We always retain the capacity to seek, to change our ways, to find common ground and to advance together. Baba Kama 5b understands the word b\u2019ayu to mean prayer, and goes further to say that human beings are praying beings. It is our nature to confront our fears by speaking our hopes, by calling out, an act both of resistance and of a stubborn insistence that the future may yet be altered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in the darkest stretches, we can call out to each other and to our Source. We can nurture each others\u2019 hopes, and strengthen each others\u2019 faith. And then we return \u2013 spiritually and physically \u2013 to a common history, a shared destiny, and a mutual resolve to stand together to create a better tomorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What of the night? 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