Our Obsession with Predictions Keeps Us From Living in the Moment

Groundhog Day 2013

Humans love predictions. Just look at how Americans wait for a groundhog, of all the crazy animals in the world, to predict when spring will arrive. It’s a national holiday. Groundhog Day. Really? In fact, our obsession with predictions really just keeps us from living in the moment and doing what is necessary to create [...]

What’s the Definition of a “Mistake”?

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Are mistakes possible? We often say, “I made a mistake.” Yet, most Judeo-Christian religions believe God makes no mistakes. If there are no mistakes, can we even define the word “mistake”? What would the definition be? If God makes no mistakes that means your child with a heart defect was not a mistake, hurricane Sandy [...]

How Do You Know When It’s the End?

Not that long ago I went to see the movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I have to admit, I’d seen the trailer (below) and was charmed by it in many ways but in particular by a line said by one of the main characters, Sonny, who, as it turns out says this several times [...]

Asking for Signs and Receiving Them

Have you ever had a time in your life when something just felt like a struggle? You thought you were on the right path, but obstacles just kept rising up in front of you and causing you to question if you were doing the right thing? I had a time like this just this past [...]

Do You See the Signs?

More often than not when we wonder what we should do or what decision we should make, we receive signs that help us make these decisions. Unfortunately, many of us aren’t looking for them and, therefore, we don’t see them. I know I’m at fault of not opening my eyes and noticing them. That’s why [...]

An Issue of Trust

Trust is an interesting thing. Once it’s gone, it’s very difficult to regain. If you lose it, it’s difficult to find. When you stop trusting someone-for whatever reason, you tend to put up a wall to protect yourself…or at least I do. Then I have to really work at letting them back in. They have [...]

Trust, Trust, Trust

This is a short post to say that I will be away for the next five days in Columbus, OH, at the Aleph kallah. I hope I’ll see some of you there! (If you want to attend, mention my name and you’ll get $75 off!). I’m also writing to tell everyone to trust. Why? Because [...]

When A Trusting Person Can't – or Shoudn't – Trust

I consider myself very trusting…possibly to a fault. Some might call me gullible. Maybe this is because of the high degree of trust I try to achieve in God, in “destiny,” in things working out they way they are supposed to, in a Divine Hand in life. And I like to trust people, too, to [...]