9 Days, 9 Thoughts: Day 7

I struggle, we all do, with how to keep the Nine  Days at the front of our consciousness. Life moves   so fast and even when we want to remember the  Beit Hamikdash, it can feel so distant. There is a   minhag to write on correspondence during the Nine  Days, Nizke Lirot Bevinyan Tzion V'Yerushalayim,   may we merit to see the rebuilding  of Tzion and Yerushalayim. But today,   we don't write very many letters. We text, we  type. So, I set up a text replacement on my phone.   Every time I type the word Churban, destruction,  C-H-U-R-B-A-N, that phrase pops up: Nizke Lirot Bevinyan Tzion V'Yerushalayim. It's small, but  it reminds me that there's something missing,   that I'm meant to feel that loss. It's just a few  words, but they anchor me in a time and in a hope   bigger than today. May we all find ways, big or  small, to keep yearning. And may that yearning   bring us one step closer to the rebuilding of the  Beit Hamikdash. May it be speedily in our day.