A Soulful Journey

Seer of the seventies, Alvin Toffler, wrote: "Once the klutz factor is eliminated, we don't need the typist." from The Third Wave Toffler was correct as he was with so many of his predictions. In this instance a segment of the job market was eliminated. There are no secretaries with typing skills in the workforce any more. They have been replaced with computer literate receptionists. The world moves on. Keep up or get out of the way. I wonder how many silent redundancies were made in the seventies and eighties. I wonder how many people slunk off wounded, feeling inadequate, less than human when innovation and people made them feel worthless. Perhaps another avenue of thought would go like this: Every person has unique skills that belong to them. To try to fit everyone into the same slot may be to miss their gift and deprive us all. Thank God we are all different.

Not so long ago and old man in Russia started learning Hebrew. That was illegal. A man from the KGB approached the old man and asked, "Tell me, what do you think you are doing?" The old man replied, "I am old. I could die any time. I want to learn Hebrew so I will understand what they are saying in heaven." "And what makes you think you are going to heaven, old man? Perhaps you are going to hell." The old man gazed at the KGB and said, "In that case, I already know Russian." ~ Rabbi Jacob Radinsky We work for heaven today. What we do impacts our present and informs our future. For this reason, nothing is meaningless. Nothing.