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Posted: Sep 4, 2008
A Need For Wisdom?
This question doesn't settle well with me because it commends competiveness withdrawn from passion. Wisdom means wits, humor, sagacity. The people who make your life enjoyable everyday are sagacious and witty therefore, these are the people who create a perfect world. The story regarding the family with the down-syndrome daughter is a good story because it tells the story that each one of us was put on this world to make a difference.
Posted By Kia Sipp, SUMMERVILLE, SC
Posted: Sep 3, 2008
creating a need for wisdom
perfection includes shattered vessels perfection includes repair perfection includes revealed wisdom perfection includes hidden wisdom perfection includes us traveling through all this variables reaching to perfection and closing a new circle.
Posted By roberto elias, la jolla , ca
Posted: Sep 3, 2008
Shattered Vessels...
Continuous strife for over 3,000 years is a lot of shattered vessels to repair. G-d has given us seemingly insurmountable challenges at times during our history. While we are immersed in human and world struggles, Moshiach is in our midst. Our goal then, is to bring more light, one candle at a time, one random act of kindness, one conscious one. And, the more light that is brought into the world at this juncture, gives all due respect to those that came before us. During the month of Elul when spiritual introspection is part and parcel of every day, we pray to better ourselves in the coming year to repair those shattered vessels and reaffirm that all is for the good.
Posted By Dr. Amy Austin, La Quinta, CA/USA
Posted: Apr 6, 2006
Creating a Need for Wisdom
This reminds me of my daughter, Madison, born with Down syndrome, legally deaf and who has severe scoliosis. Here is what I have learned from her that I did not learn from her normal brother and sister.
I do not take anything in her life for granted. Every single tiny step in maturity or anything however simple that she learns is cause for an incredible celebration; cheers, applause! Madison doesn't suffer any pain, indignity or sorrow. Every day of her life is a "yom tov". It would not have been that way had Hashem created her "perfect" in the eyes of this world rather than "perfect" in His.
Posted By Leah Lawrence, Meridian, Idaho via jewishidaho.com
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