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Last year, I had to get a passport for
my daughter cuz we were going on a trip
to China.
So, we're getting a passport for my
daughter. She was 3 months old at the
time.
It's a little tricky to hold up your
daughter for the picture because they
have a camera and they have a white
screen, but I need to hold her up, but
my hand can't be in the picture. So, it
had to be like a specific angle and I
wasn't getting her eyes and she was
throwing up, but
there's 750 people waiting
and they're not patient.
So, I came up with an idea. I said,
"Maybe, you know what? There's a there's
a we were in a mall. This is the Ocean
County Mall or the I think it's called
that. And right next to the passport
center, there's a dollar store. So, I
said, "You know what? Let me go next
door. I'll get a $1 tablecloth, a white
tablecloth. I'll drape it over the
stroller that she's in. I'll put her in
the stroller and then you'll take a
picture there." So, that's what we did.
I take my my four-year-old son at the
time. I go running through the mall to
the dollar store. I'm looking all over
for the white sheet. I find one. I buy
it. I come hustling back. I dodge the
cans of tuna that they're throwing at
me, the people online. And I go, I r I I
put it on the the stroller. We take the
picture. Gavaldic. I turn back. My son's
gone. Just gone.
So, at that exact minute, every single
possible headline comes flashing into
your brain. Okay, he's kidnapped. Every
single person in the mall is a suspect.
Yeah, that guy looks straight. Yeah,
you're a serial killer. Yeah, it's you.
I envision my son. He's inside like a
suitcase. He's getting loaded onto a
truck. He's being like hauled off to
Mexico, shoved in a tunnel. And I
frantically panic. I'm looking all over
the place. And I sort of retrace my
steps. And I walk into the dollar store
and there he is just casually in the toy
aisle looking at the toys. And I was
saying to myself, like, how are you so
calm? Like he knew I wasn't next to him.
The answer is is because he had no clue
the dangers of random people seeing a
four-year-old in a mall. He didn't know
the repercussions of what it means
kidnapped and murder and mutilation. He
doesn't know. But I know.
We might not know
what it means to get lost in the mall of
life and to just sit there and in the
toy aisle completely naively unaware
that our soul is dying, is murdered and
kidnapped.
But Hashem knows and he will never give
up and he will never give you peace ever
until you make peace with your soul.
It's not possible to be peaceful and to
live a harmonious life if the soul is
ignored. It's not possible. I know that
there are a lot of ads and a lot of
newspapers that will try to convince you
otherwise. It's not possible because
Hashem loves you too much.
