LOVING KINDNESS

Dad takes a picture of me lighting a candle and praying for Sheila and all the family in her last painful days.
Our book makes us aware of our need to develop soul traits which are everyday practices of kindness and caring.  Coming alive to the reality that I am more than my personality, more than what I have inherited from my parents but I am a soul.  Like a burning candle I am fueled  with wisdom from the past that has never been put out which can burn deep within us.

The Rabbi has a great sense of humor and will tell a story to get a point across.  In them we see flashes of spirituality which include trusting and generosity and rethinking what is valuable and worthwhile.  One of the important lessons was to practice love by our deeds. 

There was a very poor man who was too proud to accept help so his friends and neighbors would drop by with fruit and vegetables from their gardens saying that they had more than they need.  They would sometimes sneak over and change a burnt out light bulb until one day they got caught changing the bulb.  The man of the house walked in saying:  "O do not worry about those they come back on all by themselves."

Dad and I drove into town yesterday because he has to picked them up from a drugstore in town that make them up specially.  It seem to me to be wall to wall traffic but having lunch out made it a nice outing.

I am still in lots of pain trying ice and heat on my leg.  Dad was right it was worse yesterday.  Well I am soon going to develop a high pain tolerance just like hockey players who keep playing and ignore the pain!

Dad is taking good care of me and carries my books up and down the stairs for me as well as heating up our blue bags.

I talked to my old walking partner Janet as I am now visiting by phone.  She had been thinking of me and just written  me a Christmas card.