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| BringThemHome-the hostages in Gaza-NOW |
Journals tend to begin with a journey, like a vacation, or maybe a change in life circumstance. A move, becoming a citizen of Israel would be one of those.
Subtext: Now I have the right to wonder if voting matters in two countries, not just one!
An old time blogging colleague writes Life in Israel, and that is totally worth checking out. But everyone's life is different. Here's one therapist's point of view.
G-d's Country
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| Another version of God's country |
That attack defiled a holy land.
Israel is the real G-d's country, Jews and Christians believe, as opposed to Wisconsin, where Heileman's Old Style is brewed. Holiness is in Eretz Yisrael, Israel, if it is anywhere.
G-d's presence is what makes the land holy, Her/His holiness, not ours. We may aspire but most of us don't come close.
And Hamas had the chutzpah to defile it, suspending
But that is what we all did yesterday from sun up to sun down. An entire nation grieved their dead their stolen — kidnapped hostages still in harm's way. We grieved between sirens, jarring warnings that missiles approach. Get to a safe place. You have a minute and a half.
For some, sirens are triggering, as they are meant to be, unresolved PTSD of October 7 and the weeks, now month, a year that followed. Not a good year. Traumatizing for some but for others a way of life, how one lives, lived prior to this war. Missiles from Lebanon in the north, missiles from Gaza in the south, going on thirty years.
For Israelis at the borders sirens are not something new.
But to the average new immigrant (me) and to perhaps millions of Israelis, the sounds of missiles are new, as is the fear. When our defenses are down, the sound of sirens screaming, the booms bursting, despite the psychological defense of denial, despite living life as if there is no war, we feel fear.
It is how the enemy lives, too.
Blessings and Peace,
therapydoc
