I think I may have posted a link to this article before, but I came across it again as I was making a sweep of some papers needing to be filed. It's a reflection from Rabbi Shais Taub:
"So if you would like to see a miracle, I would say that in very down-to-earth terms it means a person who has come to think, feel, of behave in a way that is uncharacteristic of themselves. It is a re-setting of the default personality. And that is literally supernatural."
I've been a little inwardly jaded lately on the ability of people, more accurately systems made up of people, to change. It seems to me lately that even the smallest conflicts have folks hunkering down to fight. So how is it going to be possible for us to take on the bigger, more serious problems we face? Rabbi Taub says that getting human beings to act naturally isn't hard at all, what is seemingly impossible is getting us to act against our defalt position. We do not easily seek out the incomfortable thing.
I think this may be a theme for me this Advent, acting against instinct, seeking the uncomfortable, not acting naturally.
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