So you are not perfect. Nobody is. You think you aren't good enough, strong enough and you don't have the ability to answer God's call. In fact, you may not even hear the call at all. Remember this: Moses stuttered.David's armor didn't fit.John … [Read more...]

It was a dark and stormy night. No, really. It was 5:00 pm in early December and the heavens opened. The good Lord released one heck of a rainstorm that turned into hail before it turned back into rain again. Yet, it was calm in my heart.  I was … [Read more...]

adapted from a message by Rabbi Meir Moscowitz Good morning! So why in the world should we celebrate our birthday? It's after all just another day when another human being was born. A birthday is chosen by G-d - not by your parents, … [Read more...]

It was a hot and sticky summer night twelve years ago. Kelly’s 30th high school reunion. She took one last look in the mirror and thought, “Not bad, for an old broad.” Then she laughed at herself. “Where did that expression come from? It’s 2007, not … [Read more...]

Poet Donald Hall told the story of a hermit in New Hampshire, a man who passed away leaving behind sheds full of hoarded stuff. In one of the sheds was a box labeled, “string too short to be saved.” That’s what we do with the trivia that gets in … [Read more...]

Can you identify a turning point in your life? Was it a celebration or time of great strife? Was there a loss that still resides in your heart? Was there a birth that puts joy in that same heart? Were there words heard from years past, With … [Read more...]

Divorce isn’t easy under the best of circumstances. And for both Larry and Karen the circumstances were probably as good as it gets. Larry was forty when he and his wife Ellen split up. It wasn’t a good marriage from the get-go. They were too … [Read more...]

This is a story about my death. Maybe someday someone will write about my life, (though I doubt it) but today I’m writing about my death and what happened after. My name is Rosa Lopez and I was making empanadas when I died. It was a heart attack, … [Read more...]

Laila Simpson felt like she was all alone in the world. She was farther from the truth than she could ever know. Alone? Who is alone in a world teeming with people? Who is alone on this Earth where creatures and critters crawl and fly? Who is … [Read more...]