Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 35/40 Doubly Surprised Imagine you could travel back in time to visit yourself at half your current age. That is, today’s you goes back to talk to you when you were half your age. (In the past, I’ve given a similar assignment where […]
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Rabbi Brian asks you to ponder if the news is good for you…
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Rabbi Brian give you permission to not be you… the thinking is that we spend so much time and thought trying to be “good” that we forget that we don’t need to try so hard.
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Rabbi Brian tells one of his favorite jokes… it’s about God. (Kinda)
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter Another reflection on annoyances… Wednesday, I sent our two of my reflections on the exercise — Managing Annoyances. I have gotten so many wonderful comments back from other folk who are doing this too. I asked David B. who sent me the following if he wouldn’t mind
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter A reflection on annoyances… I am doing the exercise that I sent out on Monday — Managing Annoyances — and have two observations that I wanted to share with you. (No, I’m not going to tell you the number of times that I get annoyed a day
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 34/40 Managing Annoyances There’s a popular saying in the business world: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. (For those of you who care, follow the link; it’s interesting.) I want us to do an exercise that will measure something in our spiritual-religious
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Larry Keene 32/40 Kindness What a wonderful moment it is, O God, when a kind person walks into our lives. We feel so protected and encouraged. So safe from the pain we often bring to ourselves and from the crushing harm that others sometimes inflict on
Rabbi Brian talks about how he was accidently kind to a student, and how that made him wonder about being that kind all the time.
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 31/40 Band-Aid as a Metaphor A few years ago, I cut my thumb pretty badly while I was working on some stained glass. No stitches though – thank God. Here’s what I wrote about it: There’s a band-aid covering the tip of my very
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