| Message | Hi Doug,
It's your rabbi and I know that you are heading into the final phases of a grueling journey. You have reaped some of the rewards already and more await you, both within and beyond the moment.
Here's how I see it: God created us with the hope - given free will - that we would justify our existence. We do so in the manner that we respond to certain situations and opportunities. Sometimes those opportunities are evident to us, and other times we may achieve clarity only after the moment has passed...sometimes long after, like the miles that have disppeared under your wheels.
You are in the midst of such defining moments. You do so for yourself - the challenge and the achievement - as well as for others who will benefit in innumerable ways from what you are doing: how inspiration plus perseverance significantly increases the odds of achieving one's dreams and goals, and surely what you are doing on behalf of CCI.
Whatever deep wells you have tapped to arrive at this stage of your journey, you will now mine deeper to get over the walls and beyond the mind-numbing fatigue. You can do this!
You are so incredibly close to accomplishing what you set out to do, and a lot of folks across the country are taking throat lozenges because they've shouted themselves hoarse {a malady that members of my congregation wish upon me!}, so we're all on this ride together: "Just say 'go'!"
In thought and prayer,
Ellio |