Yo’! Where’s My Promised Land?!

I am sending out last year's Shu-Shine for the Torah portion of 'Korach', as my wife has just returned home from a two-week trip to the USA and I am preparing Shabbat for our family and four guests so that she can rest! Peace in the Home is the highest value and pursuit, and I see that if I continue to prepare a new Shu-Shine for this week, it will come at the expense of creating a beautiful and peaceful Shabbat this week.  So I am setting down my Chumash (printed edition of the Torah) and picking up a spatula! With Love and a Smile and a little canola oil, ~Shu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sometimes it seems like other people have all the luck, and we don't.  I mean, I look at myself and I say: "Man, I deserve the best!  I deserve more!  So who's the guy that messed it all up for me....?  There must be someone to blame..." We all want to make it to our "Promised Land".  We all want to achieve the things we most dream about, be those things professional, artistic, Spiritual, family-related, personal, academic, changing-the-world, or whatever it might be that we wish to impact or accomplish in our lives.  But how do we get there?  What is the kind of thinking that creates success, and what is the kind of thinking that gets us stuck in the reeds, keeping our dreams perpetually out of our reach? Attached please find a Shu-Shine for the Torah portion of 'Korach' - "Yo'! Where's My Promised Land?!" May we each be blessed to learn to recognize the many choices we make each day, OWN those choices, and through owning our choices, earn and celebrate the positive results that will one day be ours as well. This week's Shu-Shine is dedicated to my Dad & Mom -- because they taught me so very, very much.  And also, because I love them. With Love and a Smile, ~Shu