It’s that time of year again and again. It’s this season or that season this Yom Tov or that one. It’s the start of the school year the end of the school year the start of camp the end of camp. Shabbos ends the week begins each day passes again and again.
Those who crave stability focus on the repetitive nature and rhythms of our human existence: Everything is predictable even as it changes. But then inevitably we are all confronted with the kind of change that changes everything. We find ourselves on a completely new page one we haven’t visited before. There are days that change our lives forever sometimes in good ways and other times in ways that don’t feel good at all.
The Challenge of Change
Of course if every day were the same there would be very little challenge in living. It might take us a few days to figure out what the “game” is but then we’d be good to go until the day we died. For instance as newborns we could find ourselves in a cozy cradle with loving parents. We could lie there in the same room for 120 years and then return from whence we came. What would be the challenge in that?
Compassionately saving us from boredom Hashem has created a very different reality for us. From the first day of life everything changes all the time. Our abilities grow minute by minute our situation changes and new events are constantly sent our way. We grow as we adjust to these changing circumstances.
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