13. Join. If you haven't joined NSP yet, or haven't renewed your subscription to Tikkun (or never did subscribe), please do so now at www.spiritualprogressives.org.
Well, perhaps you have other ideas about what NSP needs. Again, DO IT-make it happen without depending on me or on much staff time. Not because you don't deserve it, but because we don't have it to give (at least at this historical moment). If you need specific advice, or to get materials from us, email pete@tikkun.org or will@tikkun.org-they will help.
Help make this whole NSP thing happen in such a way that whether I am alive or not (though God willing, I will be), whether I am a leader or not, the whole thing is sustainable and sustained-in short, make me personally irrelevant. Take the ideas and make them YOURS. If you need my help, watch the videos of me talking about these ideas (on our NSP website www.spiritualprogressives.org) or get a group of people together to read or re-read The Left Hand of God (for American politics) and Healing Israel/Palestine (for Middle East politics). And finally, spread as much love, generosity, kindness, forgiveness, and joyful celebration of the grandeur and mystery of the universe (or as I would put it, of God) as you possibly can!
If you can do any of this, this cancer will turn out to be, like so much of life, a blessing in disguise. And if you can pick up the work in any of the above ways, I'll be able to do the thing that is hardest for me: step back, and that in turn will enable me to spend more time writing and teaching, and more time developing my own inner spiritual resources. What a gift you'd be giving to me! Meanwhile, I thank God for all the opportunities I have been given to learn, to teach, and to serve, and ask forgiveness from you personally for the ways that I may have failed you or offended you in the past.
Love and blessings,
Michael
Rabbi Michael Lerner
