Dave Schwartz
Published: November 19th, 2015
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I am the former President of "Seed House", an on-line, interfaith community forum.  I also have published three books -  " A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue" (1994),  "Midrash and Working Out Of The Book" ( 2004), and most recently "Shards and Stanzas" (2011).

I am currently retired, and besides writing, I spend my time volunteering in my community with Meals On Wheels 
Resilience and Blessing
To have resilience does not necessarily mean to share, but blessing are to be shared. Resilience is you doing something; blessing is both asking for something and getting something, not in return necessarily, but as an answer. Doing is generally, except in crowds, work. Blessings are, even when alone, (but are you ever alone in a true blessing?) is generally an asking for, and at times promising to, to something. A blessing made for a friend or loved one must not be resilient but ought to be soft, and tender, as love. 

Therefore that which is resilient is not necessarily lovable, not to be loved but accomplished, whereas a blessing is a request. A resilience blessing is an oxymoron as is blessing resilience. Blessings do not have to be termed resilient because a blessing is generally a good thing, a request for good things to happen to others or ourselves. Resilience, on the contrary is an act to keep things at bay, to hold things as they are or were. 

Therefore I say, not give me liberty (blessing) or give me death (resilience) but rather, give me a pack of chocolate and allow me to share it with everyone I meet. Resilience is a daunting word. Blessing is a lightening word. Resilience suggests work and thought blessing does not suggest work each suggest the result, or the reward of work in the manner of deeds to be done or doings accomplished Resilience is a word of strength and blessing a word of strengthened. These are three thoughts of the slight different between or with 

Blessing and resilience but the most strengthened thought I have with thinking is as a young lad I knew a  very intelligent  girl.   

Her name was Karen Blessing.