By: Shulamit
Constant work, I tell ya! You have a routine. From the moment you wake up, you have things to do! You’re trying to fit everything in, without letting laziness catch up to you. Even ignoring the exhaustion sometimes. Because the fact of the matter is that you have physicality to attend to. Your health, your Parnassa, your day to day chores. All the while, we’re trying to bring Hashem into the picture in every way that we can. We do this by Davening, saying our Brachot, and spreading Chessed and light. It doesn’t end there. Moreover, there’s our relationships with others and a relationship with ourselves.
How can you have a relationship with yourself? Isn’t a relationship a two way street, something meant for two people? Well, yes. We have two selves. The person who we currently are and the person we’re striving to be. The two colliding everyday meshing into one, every second deciding which has the right-of-way this time. With Hashem’s help, I believe we all try to work hard to seek the source of negativity and actively work to thwart it. This is hard, but what we strive for: to be closest to our innate, pure self and our Creator! It’s a battle, but we’re armed with what it takes to overcome our Yetzer Hara in order to align ourselves with real truth.
The Yetzer Hara is a tricky guy, always wearing a new cloak to create sneakier plots to get us to slip or doubt. This is our purpose, our test of life: to elevate the mundane, including ourselves! Let’s get accountable and think about one thing to improve, whether emotionally, spiritually, or physically: a Hachlata, a resolution. And, to report about it every day, week, month. I cannot tell you how many Hachlatas I’ve made that have been forgotten about shortly after. Personally, a negative wall of mine is to live in denial. For me, it’s easier to create a fantasy from my distorted truth than to deal with the problem head on. In order to combat this I write things down, talk about the situation, and make sure I am in touch with the reality of it by verbalizing it to myself. I don’t always succeed, but I’m trying day in and out to be better for myself and for others b”H. The Rebbe said: “This world is not a jungle. This world is G-d’s garden. But, for a garden to produce good fruit one must work particularly hard... it takes more toil and more time.” May we all toil to be rewarded to see the beautiful fruits of our labor, and come out stronger for it!
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