“If pain was water the world would drown”. Prager
God
Exodus 33:19 God shares with us His essence: Goodness. Goodness is an act not an emotion. In order to be good a person must do good. Is something good because God says it is good or does God say it is good because it is good. Is murder wrong because God says murder is wrong or is murder wrong because it is wrong.
New Year
Depth: Reflect on the meaning of your life. Count your hours - not your calories: What did you do with your hours. Keep a diary of your hours. If you were followed by a camera all day long what would you watch yourself doing? Ask yourself do you want to be a better person in the new year; do you want to grow?
Living
Everything added with joy is more affective...
Death
There is a price paid for the blessing of having a loved one, losing a loved one...
Spirit
"The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments...What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass...We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things." Abraham Joshua Heschel
Living
How are you going to live? Living shapes your mind more than your mind shapes your living.
God
I live in the hope that I can live by what God demands of me; I do not expect God to live by what I demand of Him.
God
"The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering and evil; the atheist, however, has to account for the existence of everything else." Milton Steinberg
God
The man cries out to God 'there is so much pain in the world why don't you send help'. God answers 'I did send help I sent you...'
Values
Where do your moral values come from? Everyone has values. Different theologies are in consequential but the value lessons are universal guidelines for life and for teaching right action from wrong action.
Ultimate Issues
“We must discuss and reflect upon life's ultimate issues. My premise being that one must get the big questions answered, in order to get the smaller ones right. We cannot just be concerned with the quotidian”. Prager
Moral Choices
‘Ask yourself if everyone else did it would it still be ok. Then act’.