Chanukah: Light & Darkness
Thank you @theoutbackmama for these beautiful words about light, Chanukah, and loss.
“Weirdly,
Light and darkness can coexist.
Love and sorrow can stand side by side
Pain and joy
Loss and gratitude
Serenity and chaos
Both can sit in your heart and flow through your viens simultaneously
Occupying different changers of your mind, both seeking confirmation
Validation
Observation
My sweet baby Maccabee
Our Mac Boy,
Our Chanukah gift presented to us and ripped away from us at the exact same moment
Your legacy is this truth:
Two things can be true
Opposites.
Existing together.
I’m trying… but on the brightest of holidays… come the darkest of memories.
So much joy surrounds us as we celebrate out nation’s survival… while I mourn the death of my beloved son
Chanukah was one of the favorites… now it really really isn’t.
The sounds, the smells, the sights—they’re such iconic markers of Chanukah… and such triggers of that Chanukah.
A little Light can dispel a lot of darkness
But sometimes they just sit side by side
For a little while
Until this mama finds her strength to prevail.”
Remembering our son Matisyahu Maccabee or as we lovingly call him, Baby Mac; born sleeping on the first Chanukah light 2021.
Forever in our hearts, forever a light to this world
-Malki Rodal