"One of the important messages I get from my religious view of life is that, when I do something kind and thoughtful, or when I don't do something mean and hurtful—the temptation I resist, the angry words I don't speak—and nobody applauds me for it, somebody (God) knows what I've done. The assurance that how I earn and spend my money matters at the highest level, that what sort of language I use with my children and whom I sleep with affect the world in some small but real way, invests my life with significance. I matter."

May Rabbi Kushner's message inspire all of us to inhabit the word of higher values, and, in so doing, live a life that matters. Amen