An amazing story of doubt and faith.

IndigoChild5559

IndigoChild5559

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Last night I was given the link to the following autobiographical story by Jennifer Moses. I woke up this morning still thinking about it. It is touching, and it is deep.

You will not see the ending coming. She is a Jewish woman who does volunteer work at some kind of hospice in a very Christian Baton Rouge in an area where the poverty is striking. The first part is okay. But it’s about a third of the way in that my antennae went up, as she begins to tell about her spiritual crisis. And I'm telling you, you are not going to see it coming.

There are stories I enjoy, and then there are stories that become part of me. I can sense this one taking up residency in my spiritual framework.


Enjoy!
 
IndigoChild5559 said:
Last night I was given the link to the following autobiographical story by Jennifer Moses....
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As you know Jennifer Moses is a well regarded author and artist. As you are probably aware the Commentary piece was written more than 20 years ago. She is long gone from Baton Rouge and now looks back with fondness in great part because of the close-knit Jewish community there, the synagogue she was a part of and the rabbi who led it. Her books and her art revolve around Jewish themes and in interviews and the pieces she writes for various periodicals she speaks about her Jewishness, her Judaism, her religion, her G-d.

Although I found the piece well written, but because of what it is I do, the lives I interact with, it did not affect me in the same manner it did wirh you.
 
RabbiO said:
As you know Jennifer Moses is a well regarded author and artist. As you are probably aware the Commentary piece was written more than 20 years ago. She is long gone from Baton Rouge and now looks back with fondness in great part because of the close-knit Jewish community there, the synagogue she was a part of and the rabbi who led it. Her books and her art revolve around Jewish themes and in interviews and the pieces she writes for various periodicals she speaks about her Jewishness, her Judaism, her religion, her G-d.

Although I found the piece well written, but because of what it is I do, the lives I interact with, it did not affect me in the same manner it did wirh you.
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Thank you for the info on her. I honestly hadn't heard of her before. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled.
 
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