“It is a mystery. How does light become darkness, and how does darkness become light?
What is the purpose of this transformation?
We see this every day, yet our eyes do not see it, nor do our minds perceive it true.
Do you not know that life on earth is school?
Every day is class.
Every day there is what to learn.
And do not forget, once life teaches us its lessons, tests always follow.
Why would we think that nature would follow any other course?
Turn to your teacher, and learn!
Listen to the voice of instruction speaking to you from every corner of the Earth.
Listen to your interpreter, the voice within your mind, that translates for you
the messages of nature into the language of your understanding.
Underneath your skin is your full body.
Underneath the sights of your eyes is where the real truth resides.
Do you see it?
Do you even care to seek it out?
You will be tested!
After all, you are nature’s student.
You are attending the school which G-d has made.
You can’t drop out.
You must advance.
And you will, one way or another.
In the end, however long that may take, we will all graduate and advance to another world in another place to continue our education, and to rise higher and higher to a place that today, we cannot see.
We will get there.
We will learn.
But we can help the process by cooperating with it.
Be open to learn from life.
Look for the lessons that life is teaching you daily.
Reach out with your senses, and with your mind.
Ask the great question, and never, ever stop asking it.
W-H-Y-?
That is the great question.
W-H-Y-?
Continue asking, never stop.
Discover nature’s secrets all around us, and inside us.
G-d gave us curiosity in order to motivate us to ask, so “ask” we must.
When we ask, we will be answered.
Only then will we understand.
And when we understand, the tests will come to prove that which we know.
Embrace the path – seek graduation.”
Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
Chorlton Unitarians 