A Soulful Journey

In pre-war Germany, a doctor was summoned to the bedside of a very pregnant wealthy, and assimilated, woman. The doctor examined her and then said to the husband, "It is not time. Let’s play some cards while we wait." After a while the men heard the cries of the woman, "Mon Dieu! Ah mon Dieu!" The husband jumped from his seat but the doctor simply shrugged, pulled him back down and said, "It is not yet time." Somewhat later they heard the woman exclaim, "Oh what pain!" The husband urged the doctor but he said that it still was not time. Then there was a cry "Oy vey, oy vey is mere." The doctor then scrambled up and pronounced, "Now is the time!" Moral: Do not wait. Be who you were born to be now.

An old Mills Brothers song: "You always hurt the one you love; The one you shouldn't hurt at all..." Perhaps we take them for granted. Perhaps we get tired of their company. " Throughout life our own worst weaknesses and meanesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise." Charles Dickens. Perhaps we need to reexamine what is most valuable.