Episodes
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Filtering Out the Noise by Practicing Essentialism Under Pandemic
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
The pandemic has forced most of us into a "Shabbat," a ceasing, a forced limitation on our time and resources, and yet we are faced with demanding decisions that have no clear right and wrong, and lots of risk in all directions. How do we allow this year to give us the gift of getting 'comfortable with discomfort' (rather than the "discomfort with our comfort" that we usually have)? In my own life, I use Greg Mckeown book on practicing "Essentialism." I share how I do that, and how you can, too.
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
"The Clothes On Your Back Did Not Wear Out" - The Cost of Our Clothes
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Deuteronomy repeats that God tried to demonstrate how to walk with God when our clothes "did not wear out, nor your shoes" during the journey in the wilderness, as we learned that we "do not live on bread alone." During the pandemic, I've noticed that I wear three sets of clothes: Zoom clothes, non-Zoom clothes, and Shabbat clothes, and as we've slowed down our pace and we're not running around during this endurance stretch until a vaccine, we are --as Ibn Ezra interprets the "true" miracle-- realizing we walk with God in our slowing down, in our living the simple life, and we realize the craziness of an industry that has brainwashed us into a fashion industry of disposable clothes and environmental devastation. Can we go back to having just a few sets of clothes that you wear all the time?