I’m struggling with tefillah, both the formal davening-from-a-siddur kind, and the emotional asking-Hashem-for-my-deepest-needs kind. The only kind of tefillah that feels doable and available to me is the informal talking-to-Hashem-briefly-throughout-the-day-mostly-to-say-thank-You kind. My friend says this is very natural as this is what happens after years of davening for something and hearing no. It gets discouraging. It gets frustrating. It burns …
I’ve been looking around for a meaningful volunteering opportunity. I loved how some of these sounded but for one reason or another they won’t work for me. Sharing in case you happen to appreciate this sort of thing:
If anyone had told me ten years ago what the next ten years would look like, I would have never, ever believed that I could make it through them. I guess it’s good that we don’t get told these things!
Hi, all, I hope you had a good one! I did b”H, and honestly I don’t know what it was that made it so. (Some years are hard, and some are easier). First and second days, we had married siblings over with their families, and on Shabbos chol hamoed I stayed home myself while my family went away because I …
I really love Pesach (admittedly, I don’t cook and hardly clean so that might be part of it). I’m looking forward to the next week and a half with my family. I am b”H on track with my to-do list and was looking for a nice thought to share about Y”T, but was a little tired and didn’t make much …
Quick housekeeping note: if you are receiving this post to your inbox, I just want to let you know that I won’t be sending out emails for the foreseeable future because it has given me some tech issues — I realize that I never sent out an announcement about that so here it is a few weeks late! So sorry …
Around Succos time I checked out mounds of picture books from the library towards my goal of reading the Caldecott winners in order. (I modified that goal to simply be “read more picture books this year,” which I’ve accomplished). Here are a few beautiful books I enjoyed:
Much of shidduchim is avodas perach: over and over, you do things that are hard and they sink into quicksand. You think your efforts will get you somewhere, and they sink into quicksand. I honestly don’t know how anyone can live like that. And then I remember that I am living like that. I don’t understand how.
This happens every year: Pesach takes me by surprise. But it’s coming next week, ready or not.
My therapist shared an article with me about helpful grief supports and as it turns out, the most helpful support people found was in their pet.
