Spring is here!

Ah, Spring is here! The flowers are blooming, Baseball is underway, and in only a few weeks, I’ll be free for the summer. Speaking of being free, I hope everyone has a pleasant Passover holiday coming up in a few days. Passover is one of those holidays that really brings it home how lucky we are, both as Jews and people, to live in the world we do today. With everything going on these days from our national problems with the economy, to global issues concerning terrorism, to all the little headaches that come along with everyday life, Passover is the time of year where we can lean back and remember that with everything going on, at least we have our freedom. We sometimes get bogged down with all the big things going on, we forget to appreciate the things we take for granted. We can only imagine what it must have been like to be slaves in Egypt, working long days in the hot sun making bricks, building pyramids, wondering why God would subject his people to this kind of unappealing life. Luckily today, all we can do is imagine because we live as free people, in a free country, without the burden of carrying out a Pharoah’s personal wishes. So even though Passover usually leaves us with the desire to stuff our faces with bread, a few extra boxes of matzah we probably wont use till next year, and an immediate need to insert fiber back into our diets, remember the lesson’s we learn from it; that even though it seems like times are rough, things could always be worse.