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Why Prayer is The Answer To Our Troubles Today
Like I said in my prior post http://rabbicosnowsky.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=345&action=edit, I hope that you’ll join me in prayer later today. We don’t have to use formal prayer - we only need to say the words that come from our hearts. Let’s sit (virtually...
The Hard Decision To Finally Get On Twitter
Now you can follow me at @RabbiCosnowsky - But I can't promise we are going anywhere special just yet I just wanted to find a way to get the word out about the moment of prayer on Thursday which I am endeavoring to start. But, I’m not a screen person. I haven’t...
How To Find Power in A Powerless Time
How do we find power? That is a great question. Like many of you who have written in, I too feel a sense of powerless in these unprecedented times. It’s scary to feel powerless. Ultimately, lack of power is our problem, so we have to find a power greater than we,...
How To Seek Power Through Struggle
Photo by Sasin Tipchai Brene Brown http://Brenebrown.com says that ‘we are wired for struggle.’ The human condition is to struggle against something. Ask anyone at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and they’ll have very different stories to tell. One will say they are...
Fear of the virus was Paralyzing Me
It was a hard week. I really wanted to hug my congregants. Having returned from Sabbatical, it was natural that people wanted to give me a hug. Hugging, and appropriate touch, is one of my love languages. [https://www.5lovelanguages.com] I did a funeral last week and...
Why Slowing Down is the Best Way To Catch Up
This past month, I had the opportunity to go on a 30 day sabbatical. Sabbatical comes from the root word, Sabbath or Shabbat, meaning ‘to rest’. This concept comes from the verse in Genesis about how God rested after 6 days of creating the universe. And after 15...
The Value of Compromise
Danger = Threat plus Opportunity There is a symbol in Chinese calligraphy that simultaneously characterizes both danger and opportunity. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Although a situation can seem scary, there is great opportunity for good as well. It’s difficult...
How to Recognize Grief in its Many Forms
I congratulated my Doctor friend on his upcoming retirement. He was pushing 70 and I thought he’d be excited to have some time to enjoy life. Instead, he said, “This is the worst thing that could happen to me.” He was miserable about it. And he looked it. The idea of...
You Make A Difference
You Make A Difference - Never Underestimate Your Power There’s a story by Loren Eisley from his 16 page essay “Star Thrower,” about a man walking along a beach. He saw a boy standing where a bunch of starfish have washed up on the shore. The boy was picking up the...