Sometimes everything is a big deal, every decision life changing, and every failure the end of the road. I tell myself: I just can’t let that happen!
When one is working on serenity, it’s hard to ignore the current world events — they could easily shake anyone’s menuchas hanefesh. But this past month, strengthening my bitachon provided a new lens for viewing the situation, and the tools to put things in perspective.
In the sefer Madreigas Ha’adam, the Alter of Novardok says: “Even when, G-d forbid, there’s a time of emergency in the world, it will not affect the baal bitachon. He will not fear for his personal situation and his heart will not shudder, because what has not been decreed upon him by Hashem cannot happen.”
This passage brings me back to when I was a little girl and it was late Shabbos afternoon. I was sitting with my father near a door that opened to our back entrance. Suddenly, I heard some rustling outside, and I must have looked nervous because my father told me not to worry.
“What if a robber is outside?” I asked “Aren’t you scared?”
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