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BECOMING A MENSCH By Errol Strider
Stand up full strength, stride inside yourself, brimming over, fully caffeinated male…
Fill the frame… with all your humanity, no more holding back no more crouching down
Come forth male God incarnate light the way…generous spirit pregnant man with mensch inside you Mazeltov! It’s a 160 pound mensch.
We’ve waited for years, inside the sack of pain or shame, the womb of struggle and faith, the vagina of “It’s about time”
Show up manly soul emerge, raise your self to the full height of grandeur man.
You have arrived, undiminished, palms open, exuding splendor, majesty and the humility to see it in all who cross your vision.
You radiate wealth, gusto, effervescence full pockets bursting with goodies you enter our space and throw a mitzvah make it a party
you reek love, you sly mensch you drip possibility, you embody trust you surround each moment with a giant L’chiam and echoes of “To Life!” reverberate into every resonant heart
Yea! Mr. Mensch as you breath vitality into companies, marriages, families, and friends you are such good company companion, slide over and ooze into me, walk with me talk to me of heaven, speak to me of joy
you flavor our yearning with the warm spice of your exuberant presence you nourish our minds with a buoyant knowing a knowing that reaches into the First Source and Mensch who has charged you to deliver his ubiquitous menschness into every corner of time, to impassionate every true desire. to open up mensch stands all across the world, advertising the menschood giving out your mensch brochures— each warm, intoxicating smile that surges through your love
You are a mirror for my latent, true, rich, abundant maleness how gracious you are… you make room inside you for my woman you model exquisite intimacy, the male and female at home in us two hands clasped in gratitude 2 palms facing the world ready to receive, eager to give
what a present you are, you menschness friend to the earth, com padre to the little, the bereft… those who long for their menschness, though they know not what it means or how to sound it in their person
A long standing grace has made it possible for you to appear now, to take stage on planet earth as you walk across the sand, the dirt, the highway, you make it sing…
songs spring forth from your footsteps songs of Elohim and Adonai of Allah and Krishna, of Buddha, Christ and Mother-Son.
As you step fully into this space, we greet you with a bountiful “Good Yontif!” good Shabas! each moment suffused with Shabat, the time to rest in God, in the revelation of how menschy we all can be… when we discard denial, step naked as a child from the shower of purification into the full open embrace of our innocence
There you are, you hunk of mensch, luxuriating in self delight forgiving of the past, trusting of the future bonded to this sacred instant where your face beams assurance to our waiting, eager, plaintiff adolescent souls
Shine forth, Sir Mensch, Be Knighted in a diamond studded shout, “Hallelujah!
Bring life to the words, “Bawruch ataw adonoi elohaynu melech hawolawm… “Blessed art thou, Oh Eternal, Our God, King of the Universe…” Father of all mensches. for all are full bodied total beings in your sight, and that’s what makes you Daddy Mensch
So, what is a mensch? A man who walks securely in every living moment, with full confidence that every beat of his heart and each breath of his soul is a gift to life and everyone he touches is a gift to himself.
