faith based – Breathing Room

“‘Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the L-RD.”

– Isaiah 40:3, JPS 1985 Tanach

Our ways must approach the ways of G-d. If we are intent on acknowledging that “His ways are higher than our ways” (Isaiah 55:9), then we should feel inclined to make an effort in our lives to “make straight the way of the L-rd.” What would this look like for you in your life? What are the steppingstones required to reach the goals that you might envision for yourself? If we conform to the image of G-d, based upon His expectations of us, and the hope that He will mold us, then we are on our way, and He will “pave the way into eternity.”

“This world is like a vestibule before the world to come; prepare yourself in the vestibule, so that you may enter the banqueting-hall.”

– Pirkei Avot 4:16, sefaria.org