Get yourself BORN!!!!

Happy Easter!! Happy Passover!! Pesach Sameach!!

I am in a towel, and need to leave to go to synagogue in about 3 minutes, so here is half a thought of holiday profundity:

This weekend (starting now) is all about rebirth, renewal, salvation, holiness. Me being who I am and where I am and so forth, I will dish a bit about the Exodus, but feel free to contemplate the Resurrection of our Cousin Josh, if that's yer idiom.

The Israelites' crossing of the Sea of Reeds (not literally the Red Sea..) is the passage through the birth canal, from Egypt (Mitzrayim-- a place of narrowness) into the expansive potentialities and challenges of the desert, where life truly happens, where God is encountered.

Freedom!!

Throw off the shackles of narrowness and limitation!! Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, like Bob Marley says! Liberate your spirit from all oppression! Honor no Master other than the vastness of the Universe and your deep inner communion with the Source of All.

Find your path through the dry wasteland of an unfulfilled life, follow the pillar of fire-- your burning spirit-- as it beckons you to the Promised Land.

Amen! Selah! Halleluyah!

(i'm not actually this fired up in person at the moment, folks, but i reckon in the sperit of the season, i can preach it for a minute...)