Daily Excerpt: Since Sinai (Gonyou) - Chapter 1, 1
Book Excerpt from Since Sinai by Shannon Gonyou (currently in Amazon Top 100 Jewish biographies) CHAPTER 1 “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” — John C. Maxwell I told my husband that I wanted to convert to Judaism on Christmas Eve. We were sitting in our Chevy Impala in a grocery store parking lot in Ann Arbor, Michigan when I broached the topic [BL1] . We were living in Chicago at the time, but we had traveled back to Michigan for the holidays. Christmas gifts for our family members were toppling over in the back seat, and a tin box of snowman-shaped Christmas cookies from my mother-in-law rested heavily on my lap. We had just picked up some ingredient that my mom had forgotten to buy for Christmas Eve dinner, and we were supposed to be making a quick trip back to our hotel room to change clothes before heading to the celebration. I decided that during this quick ten-minute jaunt from a grocery store to the Extended Stay Br...