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"Life is nasty, brutish and short." - Thomas Hobbes
Each of us has more troubles and questions than we can handle, it seems. So most of us turn to prayer seeking help, guidance, answers.
As we have grown older, and generally wiser, we owe it to everyone else to leave the world a better place.
Toward that end, I pray daily that Nature's God, as He is called in our Declaration of Independence, will give me more work, and put problems before me that I can solve or help solve. Let me save a life, if possible, prevent an accident, clean up my neighborhood if it is only by picking up litter, road hazards, glass, or a dead animal and putting these things where they belong, calling the city to correct a shock hazard, needed repairs anywhere, or change their idiotic policies such as celebrating "PRIDE MONTH," which is an affront to America's foundations and family values.
My prayers are to serve others as powerfully and usefully as possible, and doing so is a blessed source of joy.
The Torah calls good deeds "Mitzvahs," and says we should do as many as we can, every day. I have learned this much later than I should have or wanted to.
The literal translation of "Mitzvah" is "commandment."
Each of us has more troubles and questions than we can handle, it seems. So most of us turn to prayer seeking help, guidance, answers.
As we have grown older, and generally wiser, we owe it to everyone else to leave the world a better place.
Toward that end, I pray daily that Nature's God, as He is called in our Declaration of Independence, will give me more work, and put problems before me that I can solve or help solve. Let me save a life, if possible, prevent an accident, clean up my neighborhood if it is only by picking up litter, road hazards, glass, or a dead animal and putting these things where they belong, calling the city to correct a shock hazard, needed repairs anywhere, or change their idiotic policies such as celebrating "PRIDE MONTH," which is an affront to America's foundations and family values.
My prayers are to serve others as powerfully and usefully as possible, and doing so is a blessed source of joy.
The Torah calls good deeds "Mitzvahs," and says we should do as many as we can, every day. I have learned this much later than I should have or wanted to.
The literal translation of "Mitzvah" is "commandment."