PMS

September 1, 2026 Sharon Jacobson

PMS

Pause
Meditate
Sabbath
that was the guidance
Shoni Labowitz gave her readers.
This new acronym
caused me to do just that
pause
and think about
pausing.
Pausing
challenges us to stop
and break habits,
especially the ones we do
without even thinking
Pausing
invites us to be in the moment
and be present.
Pausing
invites us
to sit with the Ultimate,
pause
and meditate.
Meditate
so we quiet our mind
clear away the stress
and the daily clutter.
Meditate
to sit more fully
with the Ultimate
and experiencing
stillness,
compassion
and a deeper connection
to ourselves
and our purpose.
Meditate
because it reminds us
to Sabbath.
Sabbath
is more than a time,
it is the experience
of ceasing,
resting
reflecting
and delighting.
Sabbath
is about us giving to ourselves
and to others.
Sabbath is
about disengaging
from the clutter
and engaging with
the Ultimate and
all that brings you joy.
Come, join me
in a PMS lifestyle
of trust in the Ultimate,
a lifestyle where we
Pause
Meditate
Sabbath.

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Sabbath

January 30, 2023 Sharon Jacobson

Sabbath

Do you still honor the Sabbath?
You should take the Sabbath off and rest.
I love it when people tell me how
I should spend time with the Ultimate
and when.
When I was young,
we would light the Shabbat candles on Friday evening
and go to Shul.
It was a tradition
until my parents stopped going.
Then I was taught to not work on Sundays,
which is hard to do when you are leading worship.
Sabbath for me is not so much about the day,
but about the time I intentionally spend
with the Ultimate.
Time in prayer,
meditation,
time spent in silence
journaling,
reading,
and reflecting.
The quality of the time,
not the day
or the quantity.
The quality of the time
I spend with the one
who I make time for
in the midst of all my days,
no matter how busy,
because I make that time a priority.

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Claiming the Moment

May 9, 2022 Sharon Jacobson

Claiming the Moments

I listen to my friends who are mobile
and able to leave their homes freely.
They complain about waiting on trains, buses and rides.
They complain about standing in line.
They complain about being stuck in traffic.
After listening to them
I think about the opportunity to relax and pray
while I wait for my paratransit to arrive.
I think about the ways spirit can bless me while I sit in line.
I think about all the moments I have to claim the blessings.
I may rarely claim an entire day to experience sabbath,
but I claim the moments.
I claim the time I am waiting on the microwave.
I claim the time I am letting my computer restart.
I claim those moments when I am
waiting,
sitting,
and doing nothing
while I wait on something.
I claim those moments as Sabbath moments
to relax,
be with the Ultimate
and be blessed.

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Alone Time

November 15, 2021 Sharon Jacobson

Alone Time

I have always enjoyed my alone time,
but in all honesty
I was not alone.
My alone time
is really about me
hanging out with the Ultimate
and just being
in each other’s presence.
Usually my alone time
is in mini blocks of time
but yesterday I spent
the whole day alone.
I experienced what it was like
to have Sabbath
to have a major block of
alone time
where we were together.
It doesn’t mean we are talking,
we are just being present.
Being alone with the Ultimate
allowed me to travel to a space
of peace, rest, clarity and rejuvenation.
It was a time of enjoyment,
laughter,
and dreams.
Alone time
can be any place,
any time,
for any length.
it is just about being alone
with the one you know
created you,
sustains you and
transforms you.

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Press Pause

September 23, 2013 Sharon Jacobson

Have you ever felt like the older you get or the more you go to school or the more you try to understand people, the less you understand? Do you miss the days when you thought you understood it all? I know I do. But I have come to this place in my life when I realize that there is so much in life that I do not understand. In fact, the more I learn, the less I feel I know. The more I read, the more questions about life I have. The more I work with people, the less I understand about humanity.

This lack of understanding used to drive me nuts. I used to feel like I needed to understand everything and have all the answers and I didn’t. I found relief in a scripture from Isaiah 55:8 which states, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” This scripture gave me permission to be okay with this sense of not understanding. Ironically, it was a piece of paper that I found left behind in a photocopy machine one day that made me understand, that this lack of understanding was actually a sign of growth. It said “NOTICE! We have not succeeded in solving all your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways, we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.”

How Big Are Your Margins

September 3, 2013 Sharon Jacobson

If your life was a piece of paper, how big would your margins be? Would you have one inch margins all around your paper? Inch and a half? Two inches? Or is your life so overflowing with stuff that you HAVE to do that you are not even sure you have any margins. If you do, then maybe they are like 1/100 of an inch.

As I have learned the hard way in my own life, some of us have gotten so used to living life without margins, that we do not even know what they are. While we might like the idea of having more time and space in our life, we have no idea how to begin to function in a world where that might even be possible. Some of us have lives that are so filled to the brim with stuff we have to do, especially this holiday season, that there is no room to squeeze anything or anybody else in.

How big are your margins?

December 12, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

In what is thought to be one of the busiest seasons of the year, I want to challenge each of us think about this question. If your life was a piece of paper, how big would your margins be? Would you have one-inch margins all around your paper? Inch and a half? Two inches? Or is your life so overflowing with stuff that you HAVE to do that you are not even sure you have any margins. If you do, then maybe they are like 1/100 of an inch. As I have learned the hard way in my own life, some of us have gotten so used to living life without margins, we do not even know what they are.

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