2 insights -"Pearls" of thought

Lessons from an Oyster
  by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown


There once was an oyster
Whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand
Had got into his shell.
It was only a grain,
but it gave him great pain.
For oysters have feelings
Although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate
the harsh workings of fate
That had brought him
To such a deplorable state?
Did he curse at the government,
Cry for election,
And claim that the sea should
Have given him protection?
'No,' he said to himself
As he lay on a shell,
Since I cannot remove it,
I shall try to improve it.
Now the years have rolled around,
As the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate
Destiny ¬ stew.
And the small grain of sand
That had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl
All richly aglow.
Now the tale has a moral,
for isn't it grand
What an oyster can do
With a morsel of sand?
What couldn't we do
If we'd only begin
With some of the things
That get under our skin




A Pearl Of Irritation' by Linda Winchell 



 
  An oyster first forms a pearl
from the irritation of a single grain of sand.
It's never placed by mistake inside you see
it was placed by God's gentle Loving hand.

Like so many things in man's own life
those irritants that we sometimes feel.
No different than the oysters grain of sand
but to us, much more irritating to deal.

God places these grains of sand in our lives
in-order that we all might learn.
To form the pearls we need to form
to place in the crowns, of which we've earned.

yechida has alot of this problem.

and I have not yet found the solution.

still searching........



A Voice Trapped  by Heather Kemper



 
 
 What's happened to the words I had?
To the voice that flowed through ink.
What's happened to the words I wrote?
The ones from my heart and what I think.
When I try
this jumbled mess comes through
for me to see and read.
It makes no sense can't understand
what it read and what I seem to need.
A blackness I feel surrounding me
it has become all I sometimes see.
I hear a rage inside
like wave crashing into the sea,
I know they are there somewhere
trapped inside my head.
I know they'll come eventually
yet will it be too long
that's what inside I dread.
These words that are eluding me
They're my peace my angel in the night.
They are the healing power deep inside of me
For what's broken no longer right
One day I know they'll flow again,
and soothe this aching mind
Opening again the door,
to the wounds I find I hide.

Time for us to polish the silver


Blackened Silver

We have all known them
The ones with great talent
But who stopped living
After a calamity hits
Highly valued citizens
With special know hows
Traded like currency
Their crafty abilities
To make something new
Repair a broken thing
Cure a stubborn illness
Teach living to a child
Grow edibles in the soil
Bring solace out of death
We watch them decay
From lofty and essential
Positions in community
Their skilled assistance
In brilliant work sinking
Into useless living death
Like blackened silver pieces


2007 F William Broome

Modeh Ani.........

Bright Morning

A slight breeze
remains
after
an all night
thunderstorm

Clouds still thick
and clearing
for a sun
struggling
to stand

Spreading light
replaces
dark
sweeping in
with a new day


F William Broome 2008

Modeh Ani....(2)


Daybreak

As a new day breaks
it lights up the line
where sky meets earth
to present a brand new day
offering fresh hours
for opening eyes at daybreak

In these few moments
seeing a new day's light
beaming skyward
the ground begins to define
our place to live below
that of the winged ones

We hear a quietness
granted for moments only in
the hush of awakening birds
stirring hungry animals
including mankind
who will see beauty as well

Daybreak is a major miracle
offering once again
a time to live and love
and know that another day
brings insurmountable joy
after we reach out thankfully


2007 F William Broome

When you hurt your wife,you work on rebuilding

same is true with your marriage to Hashem


Dedicated Renewal


Anguish swells like a wound
they had been so close
and now determined tough love
could in time
become a part of them again
Her trust shattered as
broken crystal bits
scattered over their abyss
like grains in the Sahara
He must gather them
securing granules
into a mosaic
of confidence and trust
Her heart lesion
following betrayal
must be assuaged
mended
rebuilt over time
He would restore dependence
in acts of love
and constant fidelity
toward rebuilding her faith
His resolve to deserve her
begins without assurance
only forgiveness
and a mutual touch of hope


F William Broome 2006-09

Thanks yechida for sharing. It was real nice!

Have a great shabbos!

thank you Im trying

have a wonderful Shabbos

Tanya 27-part 6

Reb Zusha said:

In heaven , I am not afraid when they will ask me “ Why were you not like Avraham Avinu”

Because for that I have a perfect answer “This is because I am NOT Avraham Avinu”

And if they ask

“Why were you not like Moishe Rabbeinu ?”

“Because I am NOT Moishe Rabbeinu”

But I am afraid when they will ask “Why did you not live the life of Zusha”

Accept who you are.

There is no need to be upset about your fate.

Your intrinsic value is not based on internal perfection because that is not your purpose in life.

Your purpose in life is the battle , and the mitzvah of “Lo Sossuru”

So there is a paradox here, because the darker the struggle, the greater the light, and the greater Hashem rejoices in that which you have overcome.

Someone came to the Tzemach Tzedek bemoaning the fact that he has  no desire to learn.

“What should I do with the fact that I do not have a desire to learn Torah?”

The Tzemach Tzedek answers him

“What should  I do with the fact that I DO have the desire to learn Torah?”

Superficially, it seems that he is telling him that I that I cannot help you because I do not understand your dilemma .I cannot relate to your problem because I love learning. So I cannot comprehend your issue.

But that is not what he is saying

He is saying exactly the opposite.

The very fact that you do NOT have a desire to learn, and you learn anyway is FANTASTIC, because you are crushing that ego. You are a very lucky man. this resistance you are feeling gives you the opportunity to crush the shell , and to express your soul in the most deepest way, and this is because of that very fact  that the desire for spirituality is dormant within you. The Tzemach Tzedek was telling him, true ,my Torah is powerful, beautiful ,and great, but this precious  deep aspect of giving Hashem this particular nachas and pleasure I do not have.

My brothers and sisters, you must remember this

Many of us, as we climb the ladder of teshuva and spirituality, as we free ourselves from the chains of negative patterns and behaviors, we yearn toward becoming so distant from our past behaviors or thought patterns, that we actually give ourselves the hope of becoming a tzaddik or tzadekkes to the point that these past drives and desires repel us completely ,that we think that after 3 or 5 or 10 or 15 years of being “clean” that these thoughts and desires should not even come up to the surface. These feelings should be dead. Dead and buried and gone, because I am not that person anymore.

And it is true that teshuva works. And in that sense , it is true, you are no longer that person anymore.

But you will never ever be that type of tzaddik

You know exactly what I mean.

True Tzaddikim are “Jewish Superman”

Even kryptonite won’t affect them

Those people are actually repulsed by bodily lusts of a course nature. the sight of a prostitute would get these people violently ill, and it’s possible we can never be this way. I am happy for him but I cannot relate to him. I cannot learn from him that much either because he does not understand such tests while we could be pure and good for years and years but we will always comprehend and even feel sometimes what these tests are like. We were forgiven. Our teshuva was fully accepted. But that internal battle may always be within us.

And that was always meant to be.

As my rebbe once said, we feel depressed on those days when learning is hard for us - we feel like it's a bad thing. Now obviously, the goal is to enjoy learning, and B"H, I think we've all felt that to some extent, at some point or another.

But on the days when we're learning even though we don't want to, We're doing it because that's what hashem wants!

When Klal yisroel said "na'aseh v'nishmah," Hashem said, "mi gilah razaih l'banei?" Who revealed this secret to my children, that the angels use? That's this concept, of doing something purely because hashem wants it, with no desire of my own mixed in.

And we have access to that on a constant level. Let's do what hashem wants, let him take over.

thank you silent for your insightful comment.

I think that this also is the idea of Hashem "threatening" to bury us alive if we did not agree to accept the Torah.

We had already agreed.

But this seemingly frightening episode was a great gift of love.

it's the gift of our inner self to be able to do the right thing,as being "forced",even when we really do not feel the emotions that would want us to do it.

This is very beloved by Hashem.

You know you should say a kind word to your wife

but you are in a bad mood.

you say the kind word anyway,in a calm gentle tone,even if you do not mean it or feel it at all right now.

you know you did the right thing.

that is why there is the talent of acting in the world.

in due time the love and healthy emotions will come forth like a flower starts to sprout after a dark and long winter.

like what 7UP wrote about Tu B'shevat.

soon the warmth will come.

but even when you feel cold inside,act warm anyway.

this is when being a "phoney" is a good thing.

have a wonderful Shabbos  

Exactly - we don't only do what's right when we're in the mood. We HAVE to!

Have a great shabbos!

Keep on rocking!

silentbattle wrote on 29 Jan 2010 16:46:
.................and rollin!!!

But yechidas to serious for all this rockin and rollin!

Im JK!! :D :D :D :D

Love, Wealth and Success 
Author Unknown 


A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No", she said. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in," he said.

The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!" he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him.

Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, why are you coming in?" The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"

Shoes 
Author Unknown 


As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoes lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair”