WELL............ WHERE TO NOW?

     "I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
     So it has been said and I thought how meaningful and trusting that was. And is.We wish ourselves to follow a certain path in life, yet almost always find ourselves veering, sometimes a lot and at other times, not much, yet it seems the perfect place for us as we progress, or learn a lesson, or help someone who needs aid and advice.
     It is also a life that is trusting to another power, the power of G-d, of Fate, of Karma, of whatever and whomever, and thus has a strong certainty that they ended where they need to be. It is both a comforting thought and a worrisome one. Do we decide anything in life or is it simply ordained and we are along for the ride? 
      I believe it is a combination of both and one side is more in play than the other at times and we need to try to understand why we are where we are, what to do, and do it. Not to do so only leads to trouble and a definite wrong path to life. It is confusing, but it also leaves us an opening to change our lives, to get rid of the impure, the troublesome, the wrong and make a u-turn, back onto the road in the correct direction.
      No, I have not turned weird, just a bit more introspective as I reach that certain age. There is a new book called When My Time Comes and I believe we all need to think about it. Are  we in the right time, the proper place, doing the right thing, or are we lost, lost in a forest of deep, wide and tall trees blocking our views in every direction? 
     I believe that we, the world, is in that deep forest right now. We have lost our views. We have lost our sense of direction. We have lost our sense of right and wrong in a time of desperation, of threats, of denial of reality and we are caught in a massive and malignant spider web of our own making. We refused to see the truth for so long that we do not recognize it when we see it, ignoring it as long as it suits us at the moment, forgetting to look into the paths of future life, not only for us, but for our descendants as well.
     Taking a trip toIsrael now was a hardship for several reasons, but we felt it a must, so off we went. It was the right thing to do. I feel stronger in many ways, more whole in many ways, more certain in the paths I need to take, firmer in my decisions, and I believe walking these ancient streets, standing small before the holiness and majesty of the Wall, of walking where history is today, always, has helped me greatly. So we do find ourselves where we need to be even if we were not sure. That is very clear in my mind.
     As an aside, a happy one, perhaps we Americans have deided to recognize that Trump has led us onto a deep, dark path that has obscured the evil he knows is right there on the road and at its end as well. He threatens a soldier who did his duty, he impugns his crooked behavior and thoughts onto others, and is just bad to the bone. Yesterday Amy Klobuchar came in third. She is growing in popularity as people realize that she is what we need now, desperately so. Let us recognize that, get back to sanity, sew our nation back together and be America once more. That is where we need to be and where we need to go.