Tikkun olam is a Hebrew phrase that means "repairing the world" (or "healing and restoring the world") which suggests humanity's shared responsibility (with the Creator) "to heal, repair and transform the world."*

Have you ever wondered if this world is too far gone to fix?

Me too.

And it crushes.

So yesterday when the thought came to me that though we cannot take back Eden, we can till the soil beneath our feet, I felt hopeful.

And I thought I'd share it with you. That hope.

And the idea that we share the responsibility to heal, repair, and transform the world with a Creator who is already at work on it. He's already under the hood...sharpening his tools...responding to the disaster.

He made you, didn't he? He made me, too.

What soil are we standing on that could use a little love, patience, peace, joy, laughter, helpfulness, or kindness tilled into it? A little prayer?

A little time tilled in with a cool beverage and quiet for a weary soul?

We can start where we are. We won't get it right every time, but there is grace in the doing.

Tikkun olam.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam