“This my friends is our choice, and that’s why the power of prayer is so strong. We can pray and we actually change destiny. The partnership. Both are in charge, and that just adds to the responsibility that each of us carries. One good deed, one good word, one good thought can tip the scale and bring personal and global redemption.” — Rabbi Simon Jacobson
It took me fifty years to understand why I was so uncomfortable going into a church for the first time when I was five or six years old. I had known the concept of this life as boot camp ever since God told me so. We must rise, fall, fall again and again in order to receive an ounce of wisdom. I never needed a mediator or middleman in order to commune, communicate directly with my lifelong best friend. Mom taught me how to pray by kneeling on my prayer rug and opening up with my Creator.
My prayer rug is behind me at this moment at the foot of my fireplace. Now that I understand a bit more about Jewish Mysticism I feel that I am at home now more than ever. Please enjoy this wonderfully love inspired testimony from my favorite rabbi, Simon Jacobson. He’s one of the wisest sages on my spiritual life’s journey. Remember, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the path. Morality won my heart after half a century of trials revealing my true, empathic nature. My narcissism is now dead.
“Opportunities that come your way, the blessings you have, how will you use them? Will you recognize them as gifts, humbly, to be used to transform the world and make it a better place or you’ll just take it for granted and feel a sense of entitlement that all belongs to you?”
— Rabbi Simon Jacobson, The Meaningful Life Center