Finding My Father

Our Father, Our King.

What is a father?

If as children, have mercy on us as a father has mercy on his children, and if as subjects…

I stand there with my years’ worth of baggage. Praying for another year.

I know the meshalim.

The boat out at sea, the boy on the shore waving. “Why are you waving?” asks a passerby, “He won’t see you.”

“He’s looking out for me. Because the captain is my father.”