Hitting The Targets In Our Lives

welcome welcome this week's topic is hitting the target there's a famous mush I believe it's from the dub Magid it's about a king who was traveling with his Entourage through the forest when they suddenly chance upon this clearing and they see an amazing thing wherever they turn they see a Target they see a bullseye set up and right smack dab in the center of every single Bullseye and every single Target is an arrow sticking out this guy did not not miss a shot impossible angles it doesn't matter if the target was up on a branch down to the floor you know hidden behind something every single Target had an arrow coming right out of the bullseye the king his soldiers they cannot believe what they're seeing this is unbelievable they've never met a marksman like this before and the King's like who shot all these arrows we have to find out who it is maybe he could train our soldiers he could train our army you know we could use such marksmen in our army and and they look around a little bit and they see behind the clearing there's a small Hut and they go they knock on the door and the simple peasant opens the door and the King says tell me my good man do you know who it was that shot all those arrows out there in the clearing and the guy says yeah it was me the king is blown away this guy this guy is the extra Marksman the king asked him tell me what's the secret how is it possible that every single Arrow no matter where the target is position hits the center of the bullseye so the guy tells him you know it's really quite simple instead of painting the bullseye and then shooting the arrow what I do is I shoot the arrow first and then wherever the arrow hits I paint the Target around it and that's the secret to how my arrows in the center of every single Bullseye it's too hard of the other way way as we go through life we don't always end up where we thought we would sometimes we may realize that we Veer it off course the question is what do we do when we come to this realization do we paint the Target around the arrow pretending to ourselves and pretending to the world that this is where we really wanted to be the whole time short changing ourselves in the process do we forget the higher aspirations the dreams and goals that we once had or are we brave enough to admit that not only may we have missed the bullseye but we may have missed the target completely we say in Ash every single day we say is close to those who call out in truth in honesty what does it mean to call out in honesty how many times is there something in our life that we want to change there's a certain aspect that we say you know we want to do it differently we want to do something better we want to change whatever it is and what happens nothing happens we don't change it it doesn't change if we don't actually do something to ensure that there will be change if we don't put up together if we don't make offense to make sure that we are not going to fall again the same time the same way we've always fallen if we're not going to do something to ensure that we're going to take that positive step that we're saying that we want to take can we honestly say we're trying it takes honesty to evaluate our lives and it takes bravery to commit to change it takes courage to make a change in our lives it's not easy to look in the mirror to take an honest look and say you know I'm not happy with who I am I'm not happy with what I'm doing I'm not happy with how my life is going it takes courage to be vulnerable but that vulnerability that's what allows us to change and make the adjustments necessary to hit the target in our life there's a very interesting malum in it's the ma says that the word which means a the word where does it come from so he says it comes from sa that in saer it says there's a l by it's talking about the soldiers of bam these elite soldiers that the sh of that the tribe of B had the says every single one of these elite soldiers from sh bin yam had the ability to sling a rock from a slingshot and hit a here they wouldn't miss their mark means they would not miss their mark this is what the word comes from the word comes they wouldn't missed their Mark what the ma says is that when we do an a when we do a when we do something wrong what did we do we missed the Mark we missed the target Chua means that we admit that we missed the Target that we say we resolve that we're going to try harder than next time and not just paint a Target around wherever our Arrow happened to land but there's another Point as well KES also means a bow a bow and arrow and the word KES a bow and arrow also eludes toil where do we find this in the in when is giving the says I'm giving you one more portion from your brothers that I took from them with my sword and with my bow with my bow and arrow Rashi over there explains that what does it mean Bashi Rashi says with my sword that is alluding to wisdom that I did it with wisdom and with my bow and arrow with my Cas Rashi says that referring toil to T theak saying I got it through tilil the question is what is the connection between a bow and arrow and Fila so the maral and G explains that the reason AES the reason a bow and arrow ausd is because just like a bow and arrow you pull back the string you let go of the arrow and the arrow flies towards its destination when we dive in what happens we let go of our it swords upwards and it pierces the heaven just like an arrow the is explaining that an function the exact same way an arrow shot from the bow functions I think it's important to realize that when we talk about creating Targets in our life reassessing our lives wanting to hit the target trying to figure out and evaluate whether or not we're happy with we're going or we want to make change we have to incorporate feel into this we have to talk toes and Sayes I need your help I need your help in this change I'm trying to make I'm trying to do a certain course correction I'm scared I'm nervous it's not who I've been until now you know maybe you're worried what are people going to say talk to Hashem ask him for help DAV and Dav let's try to live a little higher live with honesty live with courage assessing what it is we need to change do we need to make changes and let's try to make the course correct as necessary let's remember also to speak to Hashem and to ask him to help us have the strength to make the changes that we need and want to make in our lives