Life Transitions. Practical Common Sense Wisdom

We Plan, God Laughs, by Sherre Hirsch 2008

I am a self-professed book addict. Thank goodness now for BookSwim, so I do not have to actually put books up for adoption when I finish them...I can now just mail them back and trade them like a movie choice.

We Plan, God Laughs was a book I wanted to keep in my reference library, so I can read it again in a year or so. Here is an adapted book review, or you can read the whole review on our website @ http://www.launchingnewlives.com/articles.

Rabbi Hirsch combines Jewish custom and theology with practical, common- sense wisdom, and humorous personal experience. As one of very few female Rabbis in our country, she juggles being a Mom with young children, a new career as an author, and being a wife, so transitions and life balance challenges are very familiar to her.

She quickly explains that God is not laughing at us, but with us, in delight and joy. (That was quite a relief!) She believes God is a personal God, and we can access this higher power at all times. She invites us to use that connection as we work through adversity and seek our divine purpose that is unique and that only we can fill as part of a divine tapestry. Your divine purpose "theme" may remain constant, but she says to expect variations and shifts over our lifetime as we reinterpret and refine that mission.

Rabbi Hirsch has a gift for communication, and her role as a Rabbi was very fulfilling for the first eight years of her career. Then, she realized it no longer was her path; rather than leave her chosen “field” she realized that communication takes many forms, and that she was limiting herself to the pulpit. By re-interpreting her gift, she now shares her wisdom in a larger venue as a writer, and as a spiritual life consultant, on radio and television.

We Plan offers a fresh, encouraging perspective on authenticity, trusting yourself, forgiveness, taking action, and the human need for community.

“...we were born with divine sparks, and our task is to bring them to the world…these sparks have been with us all along. …pause and listen to what God has been telling us all our lives…we can fan our sparks into a flame.”

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