To Make a Life

Haim Potok, a Jewish rabbi, scholar and writer, was born into an orthodox Jewish family in 1929. He grew up in New York City and started writing fiction when he was only sixteen years old.

Repeatedly his Polish immigrant parents would keep telling him, "Haim, be a brain surgeon. You will make a lot of money and you will save a lot of people from dying."

Time and again they would give him the same advice, "Haim, be a brain surgeon. You will make a lot of money and you will save a lot of people from dying."

However, Heim wanted to be a writer and after repeated advice from both his mother and father telling him what he should do with his life, he shouted back at his mother, "I don't want to stop people from dying. I want to teach them how to live."

True, making a living is very important but learning how to live is much more important. 

Dear God ...

please help me ...

to get my priorities straight ...

so that I will always live in harmony ...

with your Word and become prosperous ...

and successful as you define these qualities ... 

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayerz ..