Toast of Thankfulness         (from The Haggadah of Liberation)
 

(Lift wine glasses and recite together:)

To where we've each come from
To where we're going and how we're changing
To being where we are and who we are
To what we can share
To what we can't share ...yet
To our joys and our struggles, which in full times we know are connected and which in hard times isolate us
To process, and the times when we lose sight of process
To pain, to growth
To painless growth, to painful growth
To our efforts, our faith, our determination
To our fears, tears, laughter, hugs, and kisses
To wisdom, to study—alone and in groups
To our books and tools, to toys
To materials, raw and fine
To work, to meetings, to sleep
To our eyes, which see mountains
and faces
and flowers and bodies
and occasionally sunshine
To our ears, hands, noses, mouths, toes, breasts
To caresses, to touch, to our senses
To our knees
To the times we fall down and pick ourselves up
and the times friends help us up
To the shoulders we cry on
To the arms that hold us
To the strength in each of us, alone
To our work
To our play
To our loving
To our growth
To life itself  ... l'chaim


haggadah Section: Bareich