Wow, Does God Believe in You

We'd all love to be close to God.  At least, we'd all love to be able to connect to some kind of a more "Meaningful Something" in our lives.  OK, maybe "God" is the wrong 'word' for some people -- but most of us, deep in our Souls, are so desperately thirsty for a deeper thread in our lives. The problem, of course, is that we don't want to turn our lives upside-down to get to that deeper part of ourselves and of this life.  We don't want to have to 'freak out' and jump off the Spiritual deep end, and pretty much give up our free will in order to live some kind of script that some kind of 'officer' of God is standing by and ready to dictate to us. So what do we do?  Where do we begin? Attached please find the shu-shine for the Torah portion of 'Mishpatim': "Wow, Does God Believe in You".        (click “Listen Now”, below!) May we all be blessed to let go of the sense of 'have-to' in our relationship with God, and discover that it is all based on 'want-to' -- the 'want-to' that grows from a place of trust and commitment, and which is never based upon expectations or fear. With Love and a Smile, ~Shu