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Do you feel it?
I know I do. It's that feeling that we are really moving out and into unchartered waters; exploring new places, new thoughts; trying on new feelings and attitudes - unlike any of us have seen or felt before!!
That's what's going on in our BBSGL&L. And I am so impressed with the growing openness and trust and confidence that I am seeing in the Group.
As we discussed today, I encourage "
all y'all" to take a look at the beginning of the 5th perek of Bava Basra; especially with the help of the Art Scroll commentary. Where we learned today about "their journey on a Ship" (see - even 2,000 years ago, they had a Fellowship on a Ship!) "And how in their journey they saw a wave that could sink a ship" Thanks to the Gra, we know that the
sea is this world; the
ship is man's body, the
passenger is his soul and the wave is the
yetzer hara.
Thank G-d, we are all on a Ship that today gave over the following take away messages:
- Bill shares his Story at this point and we see how he is taking various Steps in the Program - all of them prefaced with a recognition that we have to "place ourselves unreservedly under His care and direction."
- How we must "face our sins and become willing to have G-d take them away"
- How we must fearlessly face our defects and make amends with people we have harmed.
- How we must pray to G-d, "not for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others"
- And then to carry this message to others.
- To maintain the new order of things, we must act with humility and honesty.
- In brief, we must use these tools as the antidote to our EGO - which we learned stands for EDGE G-D OUT.
So please continue to join us on this amazing and life changing Journey.
Keep coming back, because it WORKS, if you work it and you're WORTH IT! Duvid Chaim
PS - While you may have seen "Is Lust a Problem in Marriage?" from the GYE Daily Blast, it was so important that I wanted to make sure you saw it again. Please see Chizuk e-mail #620 on
this page(scroll down). Thank you Boruch, moderator of the
"Back to Basics" phone conference!!
