How do we know when to take action, what actions will make a difference? There isn’t a simple answer–maybe no answer at all. Do we accept that much of the time, we make a decision in every moment, where to leap, where to take a stand, where there is a chance to make a difference by acting, by being there…by being.
Go Forward With Courage
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
— as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800’s to 1914)
Zog Nit Keynmol
(The Partisan Song)
composed by Hirsh Glick
hymn of the Vilna Partisan Brigade
Yiddish:
Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letztn veg,
Ven himlen blayene farshteln bloyeh teg.
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,
S’vet a poyk ton undzer trot: Mir zeinen do!
English:
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue.
Because the hour that we hungered for is near,
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble:
We are here!