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    Have you ever been bored to death for too long period of time? If you haven’t, I applaud you. If you have, you know how awful that gnawing emptiness is. That restlessness that unsettles us so deeply, we are apt to blame it on everything outside of us-- our situation, the place where we live,  they are causing us to feel dead.

       No, my dear friend, we are pointing our fingers in the wrong direction.

       We get bored to death when something in us is not able to wonder at the big things and little things in our life at our joys and at our grievances.

Being bored to death means our minds and souls have closed themselves off from appreciating the intricacy of own being, the complexity of our souls!

       Did you know that “death,” in Jewish spiritual tradition, quite often

 pertains to loss of the soul while living? Though loss of the soul while living

 can be agonizing, the soul can be found and redeemed! 

        A spiritual life  means learning how to find the soul and to marvel with it.

     To ask questions that stir us to wonder like a child in awe. Why am I? How is it that I have life? How did I get here on this earth?

      Let me share a deep feeling of awe and wonder that I had when I was I four yours old. The awe came over me when, at 4 years old I was enjoying the privacy of a nook in my home. There we kept a small barrel of pretzels. Though I wasn’t eating them. I just loved the cozy space with these salted treasures stored there. Suddenly the awe and wonder descended on me, till my little jaw dropped.  

      I knew, in one swoop fell, that I was incredibly lucky to have been born. In order to get born, as I understood it, a mother had to swallow the seed of you. But the seed of you was the size of a grain of sand, one among endless grains, So that my mother picked the seed of me among infinite grains of sand and swallowed it was an event that was not possible. The impossibility of me in that nook with the pretzels, shocked me. To this day, this memory of wonderment with my existence enlivens me when I am distraught and sad. When I feel I have lost my soul, I recall that vivid pleasure of knowing that life was a great miraculous gift.

                  You are invited to watch my short You Tube video “Here I am:  How to Find Yourself and Your Spirit.” May the exercise I give there excite your wonder should you feel tired, and worst of all soul dead!