Sometimes, not only the rain, but your buckets as well, are handed to you from above.
Sometimes it’s taken out of your hands to determine where you should go, what you should do and how it should be done. Sometimes you are Joseph, captured and tied to a destiny too great for you to fathom.
Sometimes you need to be quiet and just do what needs to be done. Do the best with whatever you’re given—honestly and earnestly. And put your confidence in your real Employer.
Likutei Sichot volume 18, page 293 ff; Derech Mitzvosecha, Taglachat Mtzora.
No Free Ride The meaning of life does not relate to our earthly existence and how to obtain the most achievements, money, honour....which often ends in disappointment.
A time comes during one of our incarnations, when a new desire ripens in us - to search what happens beyond the few decades allotted to each person?
With the guide of an authentic kabbalist, and the Kabbalistic sources, we work against our 'I' to attain new values and new senses. Then we attain the sensation of the spiritual world while still living in this world.
Gradually a whole new reality opens to us - we understand G_d's goal for us, how he governs us and we will gradually awaken to a beautiful world that knows no boundaries to an eternal life with the Creator between us.
There is no free ride to the World of Infinite joy: We work to rise above our 'I' in order to enter the hearts of all humanity and to open our hearts to them. Alternatively, we will arrive there but through much pain, suffering and devastating conflict(s)!
Awesome word Brenda. Nothingness was the best thing that ever happened to me. G-d got my attention. I will never be the same again.