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# 9 / 40 – March 2008

Abundance.                      
A quip.

My friend Jon is a writer.

He wrote something I wanted to share with you.

It’s an untitled, one-line, spiritual-religious poem.

Here it is:

There’s an abundance of it in the universe, on the shelf in the back, behind the brand new fear display.

Amen, Jon.

We
would all do well to remember that while fear is often the cover story,
our lives as they are contain (for the most part) enough.

With love,



Rabbi Brian

A web version of this article is available here.
This article was also posted at Street Prophets where it received a few comments.

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