Parsha Shlach - "Rocket to Your Dreams"

Dear Friends,

Sending everyone wishes for the most beautiful Shabbat!  

Also sending an open invitation to send me your spiritual/life/faith/personal/relationship/God/religion/search-for-meaning questions for possible topics of future shu-shines!

It is so easy to give up on the world.  It is so easy to find things to get depressed about and to use as excuses to surrender to unhappiness.  But what we sometimes miss, is that as we give up on the world, really, deep deep inside, we are actually giving up on ourselves.  Because once we convince ourselves that the world doesn't work, then the obvious conclusion of that thought is that we are impotent to do anything meaningful with our lives.

Sometimes, when we realize that we have stopped dreaming – when we realize that we have surrendered to routines and "the second-best options" of life, the key to breaking free is to start finding things to believe in around us.  Look around!  Smile at a bird!  Smile at a cloud!  Stare into the layers and colors of a flower.  Watch little children laugh.  Go to a dog-park, and watch dogs that have just met each other become instant best-friends.  See the world of love around you.  See a world without boundaries and limitations.  And join it!!

Attached please find a Shu-Shine for the Torah portion of 'Shlach' - "Rocket to Your Dreams"

May we each be blessed to believe in ourselves, to believe in our dreams, and to see our deepest and truest dreams become realized in our lifetimes.

With Love and a Smile,

~Shu

Phish Quote (yes, summer tour is coming!): "Step into space, alter my place, that someone else made. Why I have stayed… Into things I could be…  Or if I could see into fog that surrounds, and pins me to the ground."

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