
From Pain to Possibilities: Making sense of challenges to find meaning and peace
At one time or another, regardless of our faith in God, the universe or one another, we have all wondered why bad things happen to good people. In fact, the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold Kushner, was one of my first resources for examining this, and still a relevant read today. This book was recommended to me in college by my life-long friend and then room-mate to help me wrap my brain around what was seemingly a quite unfair world. While most of

Should VS Is: Letting go of what should be to embrace what is
Change is not easy, but living an authentic life, one we choose, is an invaluable reward. All things being equal, I should have been an artist. I am an avid aficionado of arts and music, though I never really enjoyed creating my own work (skill deficit and boredom). I even worked at an art gallery, where I tried to make things- even though I didn't really enjoy the process. They always blended into the fateful color brown, sometimes they were gluey, at best they were awful. M