A Soulful Journey

Rabbi Sidney Greenberg used to tell the story of a town hall meeting where the discussion centered on the use of a new electric chair for the condemned.   One man stood up and shouted, “Hanging was good enough for my father.   It’s good enough for me!” From birth we move and grow.   What was good enough for daddy requires personal analysis.     It may be good enough for us.   Or not.    

Parsonage children have their problems.   They have to live with ‘One Foot in Heaven.’ “I do not enjoy living with “One Foot in Heaven,” being God’s representative among my peers as Daddy was among us all….    That is simply how things are and to quarrel with how things are is to think you can box with God and win.”             - Julius Lester Life does not ask our permission.  It proceeds as it will.  The only thing we can control is how we respond to it.