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Merri Ukraincik is a writer, artist, wife, and mother who talks to G-d all the time. Her essays have appeared on Tablet, The Forward, The Wisdom Daily, and Lilith, and in The New York Jewish Week and other publications. She is a columnist at the New Jersey Jewish News and the author of I Live. Send Help., a history of the Joint Distribution Committee. Find her on her personal website!
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been an early riser. There’s a lovely rhythm to those first waking moments when it's not quite dawn, but night has begun to make its retreat. I'm glad to have that time all to myself, to let it shake the hazy visions from my sleepy imagination. I slowly wade into the ocean of a new day until my body decides it's ready to submerge. Having shoplifted an extra 30 or 45 or 70 minutes from the cosmic stores, I swim off to find myself in the stillness.
Of course, there’s more to say when we bump into one another. There always is. But do you really want to know? Do I really want to tell you?
We may have let our son join the wrestling team. But aren't we all wrestlers? Haven't we all, at different times in our lives, felt G-d pin us to the mat?
Time hadn't chased the demons from the box. A piece of me was still missing.
A story about one man and G-d, and what their moment foretold for the rest of us.
When I open my eyes, I see the holiness in the water and in the everyday details of my life.
