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I've been re-reading Lionel Blue's excellent book A Backdoor to Heaven. I've marked down so many pages to revisit the wisdom they contain, and here's something very simple and poignant.
About the reality of religion:
It is being nice to other people, trying to love them and if you can't at least not hating them, passing plates at parties, helping them with their luggage, telling them the time without making a fuss, letting yourself be used without becoming a doormat, and keeping your integrity in a tricky time.
Now I hear you say, "Rabbi Blue, what dull stuff! Why, it's the kind of thing people teach in any old-fashioned Sunday School. And I answer a bit ruefully, "Yes, you're right, it is. The only difference is that once I tried to teach it to children, now as an adult I try to learn it myself."
About the reality of religion:
It is being nice to other people, trying to love them and if you can't at least not hating them, passing plates at parties, helping them with their luggage, telling them the time without making a fuss, letting yourself be used without becoming a doormat, and keeping your integrity in a tricky time.
Now I hear you say, "Rabbi Blue, what dull stuff! Why, it's the kind of thing people teach in any old-fashioned Sunday School. And I answer a bit ruefully, "Yes, you're right, it is. The only difference is that once I tried to teach it to children, now as an adult I try to learn it myself."
