Imperfect Gratitude - Rabbi Doniel Staum

in partial summer the torah describes the mitzvah of omer which were involved in during these days in the madrid comments that the mitzvah may never be light in your eyes because witness it was in the source of the mitzvah of the omer that aroma of venus received their it's israel that his children inherited heritage israel and the message continues with all these other salvations that occurred what does that who mean way before the mitzvah of omar even came to fruition what is the message that the medici is telling us the safe you that says such a beautiful and powerful and poignant idea we know that the carbon omega was bought from barley barley grows before wheat barley really essentially is an animal food until challenged nobody ate barley so the barley grows and the farmer gathers up the barley but he thinks themselves i'm not going to really go out and think hashem for the barley i'll wait for the wheat when the wheat comes because that's what i really want that's where you make your cakes and your cookies and all the other colors and all the other good food that we enjoy so much so when the wheat grows that's when i'll harvest it and that's when i'll express my gratitude hashem says the possible the barley grows first harvest the barley make a carbon mineral out of that barley and bring it to hashem express your gratitude for what you have now and says the alcot so often in life we don't get what we want we're very frustrated by it we think that we can fulfill our dreams in a certain way but they don't happen that way and so we don't have any gratitude the mitzvah of omer reminds us to be thankful for hashem for whatever he has given us even if it's not the ultimate fulfillment of what we really want a person has to be grateful a person has to be thankful for whatever he has at that moment that was the life of a roma vino around him never lived to see the fruition of the promises that gave him but he was full of gratitude he lived his whole life as one expression of gratitude a life of giving a life of even though it wasn't fulfilled exactly the way he wanted and what he thought should happen and with good reason that he thought it should happen that way a person needs to learn to be grateful for what there is even if it's not the ultimate fulfillment of his dreams and desires and wants not an easy feat we have artsy swell such a gift today to be able to get on a plane to go there it's israel to be able to door out to israel so it just flows such a gift it's not the fulfillment of all of our dreams it's not the gula it wasn't the prophet who brought us back there's a lot of things that we're frustrated about but that doesn't negate our tremendous responsibility to be thankful for what he has given us person always has to be grateful for what he has but so often we get sidetracked by all the things that we don't yet [Music] as someone told me that a secretary and his issue used to have hanging next to her desk don't complain about what you didn't get just be happy you don't get what you deserve we should be grateful taco for everything we have is another beautiful quote that has been circulating if all you had today were the things that you were grateful for yesterday how much would you really have we need to be thankful to hashem for all the gifts that he's given us in life even while we pray for all the things that we did not yet [Music] you