It’s late, and I have something of a buzz working while I listen to my blog's music ‘playlist’ (currently playing Debussy’s "Clair de Lune" at the moment). I’m drinking--more like already finished--a rather potent concoction called ‘Gin and Sin.’ I, of course, poured the gin portion of the recipe sufficiently strong with none other than Bombay Sapphire, or what I like to affectionately call “Blue Bottle Elixir.” Yummy!
Anyhow, I decided to post a brief quote from Rabbi Lawrence Kushner (*not* to be confused with the more famous Harold). It comes from his beautiful book of short essays, as I would label it, anyway, “Invisible Lines of Connection—Scared Stories of the Ordinary.” He reminds me of a Jewish version of my fave spiritual thinker, Frederick Buechner, who happens to come at life from a more nebulous Christian perspective. The quote below from the good Rabbi is somewhat disturbing to me at one level and at another level comforting.
“Look, I don’t think God made a tumor grow in that girl’s mother's brain or that God has anything to do with the choice of careers or where I used to shop for bargain basement clothes. But I can’t get it out of my head that somehow God is mixed up in the whole horrible, holy and joyous goddamn thing.”
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