G-d: Blowing in the Wind - Rabbi Akiva Fox

I once had the opportunity to take a very special jus one of my rub am one of my most prestigious rabbis that i know and i had the opportunity to take him to a cemetery to visit the grave of his his rabbi and it was a boiling hot day and we were going to Bnei Brak bnei brak and it's kind of like the Sahara Desert maybe like Death Valley there's a lot of heat there might not say that on the thermometer but when you're there you feel it trust me especially if you don't have hair because then you get sunburned easily your head turns like red like a tomato and everybody knows you were in the Sun so we went and we went to the grave of his rabbi and we prayed there and as we were walking out it was a breeze a wind draft wafted through the air and the rabbi said and Yiddish I left the air it's a present from God now I'll be honest with you I was very hot and the air really felt good but I was more in the mood of getting into an air-conditioned car with a nice diet coke and the rabbi said we have to appreciate a little breeze is a present from God we may not look at it like that but it's so important to realize God is everything God creates everything God does everything little things and big things alike when something like that happens we don't want to see it we may not realize it but that is literally God saying I know it's rough for you but here take some air here take a drink a few months ago I turned on the sink in my house and brown water started coming at guey if he I don't know better adjective for it but if he was the bet I don't know if that's in the dictionary I don't know if Miriam Webster came up with that one but it was disgusting I don't know what happened and for a few seconds it was putrid water obviously I didn't drink it thank God but sometimes when we turn on the sink and good water clean water comes out we don't appreciate how easy God makes it for us to take a drink to prove the point look back in history you wanted to drink somebody had to go out down to the river a few miles away get a big bucket bring it back and now shy made it easy you just turn on the sink little things that are really big small miracles that are huge miracles to appreciate the goodness and the kindness RM and everything literally all the things that we do all the things that we can do all the things that help us along the way are there gosh m wanted us to have it if a person is able to think of a way to explain something for example for example such a simple concept I'm saying the words for example and now i'm going to give an example now I thought of that example how did I think I don't just popped into my head I'm breaking it down for somebody I'm breaking it down into a more an easier way that's easier to conceptualize where I come up with that from that's right God is speaking to me and I can make things easier for you and truth God speaking to you too if a person would realize all the goodness and all the kindness and all the small miracle that exists in the world for his benefit that would help him see the hand of a ship that would help him relate to God in a much deeper in a much more open fashion there are some of the things that we don't even realize we take completely for granted without appreciating this is really I should there are so many things in our day-to-day lives all we have to do is open our eyes try to see it try to appreciate it a very special man once told me that he wants me to keep a notebook of the small things that God has given me every day the boosts what's called in Hebrew it's called physic gives you a little energy a little push to go further little reminders that I Shem says like I got you back wants me to write them down and he said at the beginning you'll have one or two a day but you're gonna see how many things there are in your life that God says I got you i'm with you i'm taking care of you whether it's something that your children do that makes you happy something like the air just being cool nice weather hashem wants you to enjoy a sham wants you to benefit sometimes you have something like cholent cholent is the famous typical Jewish shabbos meal it's potatoes and beans and barley and meat it's not a stool it's showing there's no other way to explain it I invite you all if you haven't tasted it yet please look me up I think I'm on the internet if I'm not scream loud enough I'll hear you you gotta taste a child you put it in a crock-pot you let it cook for about 24 hours you eat it you let it go into your stomach that takes about another 24 hours and then it's an enjoyable thing but it doesn't always come out the same sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't you know why I don't know why either but when it does come out show appreciation when something sometimes you take a drink and for some reason just satiates your thirst Shem wants you to feel good wants you to feel good about yourself somebody gives you a compliment and that compliment helps you through today that compliment somebody comes over and says you know what you're a great guy and you just you have so much confidence you feel so so great you go through the whole day and you feel awesome and then of course at the end of the day the guy says it was a mistake I was talking to somebody else but when you feel that boost of energy a sham wanted you to have that somebody walks over to you in the street and says a nice word a kind word you got to be appreciative to the person who said it but also be appreciative to the one who sent him it doesn't just happen randomly to happen at this time i once sent an email to somebody a therapist a therapist that i had referred somebody to this therapist a student of mine i referred him to a certain therapist for therapy that was about four years ago and i met this student who had already finished therapy and gone on and built a great life let's say two years ago and he told me you know that therapist you sent me to she really helped me change my life so I wrote an email to this person and I said I met so and so and he said you really helped him change your life and I got an email back and this therapist said to me you don't know how important how much I needed that email how much I needed that to feel self confidence how much I needed that to get through my my life right now I'm having a difficult time and I really really needed that do you know how much I said you know how much kindness God has done in that little email number one he helped me meet this individual number to the individual happened to remember that I was the one who referred him he happened to tell me that it changed his life I happened to email her and she happened to need it at that point God is in everything God is there for us God is there to help us to guide us along and to make it easier for us all the benefits and all the pleasures that we have is a sham sayin I want you to enjoy my son take one have a good time enjoy yourself benefit from what I want you to have but what we need to do what our job is to say thank you thank you God for everything you give me I want to see your hand in every aspect of what you give me even the small things don't sweat the small things benefit from the small things thank God for the small things because they're all there from him to us you