This meditation is a continuation of our exploration of the retrieval of the inner child on Rosh Hashanah. (It also works perfectly well on its own). In the last meditation, we explored how Hagar abandoned her crying child under a bush. This week we look at the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, as another description of how we hurt our inner child — we bind up the “Yitzhak,” we bind up the laughter, the playfulness, the aliveness, the joy. In this meditation, we consider that maybe this is not what God wants, that it is the second call to Avraham that expresses what God ultimately wants from us, to unbind that child and set her free, to redeem our own aliveness and spirit, to “choose life,” as God is the “king who desires life,” desiring not just our physical life, but our aliveness, our spirit, our joy.
Thank you with all my heart, Joanie.