The purpose of this email is to build some strength at the Shabbat table. Please print and share.
Many thanks to those who sided with me in last week's debate!
This week's topic for your table is about airports.
Question for your table:
Do you have an airport nightmare story?
Who doesn’t?
Delayed flights, lost baggage, missed connections...
Anyone who has traveled has been there. How many times have I heard, “I’ll never fly on X Airline again”, when all of these problems occur on every airline.
13 years ago, when we had to cut short our Israel trip after two days for my grandmother’s funeral, my mom’s suitcase didn’t make it to San Francisco and the airline knew where it was but, maddingly, couldn’t figure out how to get it to us. But every time I found myself feeling the slightest twinge of frustration, I thought of the next woman in line at the lost baggage claim, who was weeping.
“What’s wrong,” my mom asked her. “Did you lose something particularly valuable?”
“Yes,” sobbed the woman, “My daughter!”
It seems her unaccompanied-minor daughter didn’t show up, and an airline rep had sent her to lost baggage for help!
No matter how bad it seems, there’s always someone who has it worse.
Not only that, but the fact that we have a functioning air transport system is a wonderful thing. If I plan ahead of time for contingencies, I don’t mind the delays. I’m puzzled by the fact that while 100 of us waited at baggage claim for 45 minutes, I appeared to be alone in opening a book. Everyone else seemed to prefer watching the pot boil.
Anything as complex and human as an airport is bound to have snafus. So many people responded favorably to what I wrote on June 9, it maybe bears repeating here.....
Every experience and every person in our life has a purpose in our life. It seems to me that the purpose usually falls into one of three categories:
A. To make you wise
B. To get you to ask for help or to say thanks
C. For you to give or to receive an act of kindness.
Sometimes a single experience can have more than one purpose.
Here’s an interesting question to ask: which is a better quality, firm v. flexible?
Shabbat Shalom
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Many thanks to those who sided with me in last week's debate!This week's topic for your table is about airports.
Question for your table:
Do you have an airport nightmare story?
Who doesn’t?
Delayed flights, lost baggage, missed connections...
Anyone who has traveled has been there. How many times have I heard, “I’ll never fly on X Airline again”, when all of these problems occur on every airline.
13 years ago, when we had to cut short our Israel trip after two days for my grandmother’s funeral, my mom’s suitcase didn’t make it to San Francisco and the airline knew where it was but, maddingly, couldn’t figure out how to get it to us. But every time I found myself feeling the slightest twinge of frustration, I thought of the next woman in line at the lost baggage claim, who was weeping.
“What’s wrong,” my mom asked her. “Did you lose something particularly valuable?”
“Yes,” sobbed the woman, “My daughter!”
It seems her unaccompanied-minor daughter didn’t show up, and an airline rep had sent her to lost baggage for help!
No matter how bad it seems, there’s always someone who has it worse.
Not only that, but the fact that we have a functioning air transport system is a wonderful thing. If I plan ahead of time for contingencies, I don’t mind the delays. I’m puzzled by the fact that while 100 of us waited at baggage claim for 45 minutes, I appeared to be alone in opening a book. Everyone else seemed to prefer watching the pot boil.
Anything as complex and human as an airport is bound to have snafus. So many people responded favorably to what I wrote on June 9, it maybe bears repeating here.....
Every experience and every person in our life has a purpose in our life. It seems to me that the purpose usually falls into one of three categories:
A. To make you wise
B. To get you to ask for help or to say thanks
C. For you to give or to receive an act of kindness.
Sometimes a single experience can have more than one purpose.
Here’s an interesting question to ask: which is a better quality, firm v. flexible?
Shabbat Shalom
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