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Nature wordlessly speaks of God's presence

By Rabbi Marc Gellman, Tribune Content Agency on

Do not think that you need to be able to see nature splayed out in a great mountain range, a sunlit canyon, or a pristine beach. Whatever part of nature you can contact outside your door will be enough to make a link to the Creator of all. Thoreau wrote, "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

Let us take the spiritual vaccine from the Bible and use it to give us spiritual immunity to this plague.

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Wednesday evening April 8 is the first seder meal and the beginning of Passover. The next Sunday, April 12 is Easter Sunday. It is certain that this year our large family gatherings and our joyous worship in our churches and synagogues will be either severely limited or canceled. I urge you to find some way to reach around these necessary medical obstacles to our joy. Start planning now to try to work out shared services and shared seders online through all the various social media sites that I am way too old to summarize for you (Zoom and YouTube look good to me). The point is that Passover and Easter are not places, they are sacred moments and there is no reason for those moments not to embrace us all.

Stay safe,

 

Happy Passover,

Happy Easter.

God bless us, one and all.

(Send ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS to The God Squad via email at godsquadquestion@aol.com. Rabbi Gellman is the author of several books, including "Religion for Dummies," co-written with Fr. Tom Hartman.)


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