Life Is A Journey And The Journey Is The Point!

welcome back to living higher this week's topic is life is a journey and the journey is the point imagine you meet a mountain climber he's getting ready to start his climb up the mountain he's got all his gear together he's been training for this moment he's passionate he's determined he's excited and you go over to me and tell him it's 2024 why you bothering to climb up this mountain take a helicopter take a helicopter straight to the top to the peak and then if you want you to climb down so much easier that way or it can take the helicopter back down why are you bothering with this difficult climb he'll look at you like like you're crazy he'll say like the whole point is not just to get to the top it's not just to reach the top but it's to climb to the top The Climb is the point of the Journey To The Top The Climb is the purpose not just to reach the top but the actual journey to get to the top is the purpose is what he wants and despite the fact that it could be dangerous or it could be difficult but he actually enjoys to climb the entire way up and when he reaches the top when he reaches the peak he feels a tremendous sense of accomplishment for what he did you know I remember when I was younger there were certain Hills I had to walk walk up and I always thought to myself like man I wish these Hills could only be downhill or at least Flats I didn't have to walk up them yet when I was going sledding I would walk up the same Hill no problem whatsoever I would run up the hill I was so excited to get to the top because I had a purpose I had a destination the top was now so that I could go sledding downwards you see not all going Hub bills are equal if you have a destination if you have a purpose if there's meaning in the climb going uphill is easy it's when you don't have a purpose when you don't feel any purpose in the going uphill that's when you start to resent the fact that there's an uphill climb it's for example let's talk about the going sledding again if you're going snow tubing you're going skiing and there's a lift to take you to the top but you're just trudging up the hill you're going to resent it you're going to resent it because there's no point to that climb it's all about attributing meaning or purpose to the climb life is a journey very very often there are uphill stretches sometimes there could be long long uphill stretches sometimes the hill could stretch before us like an insurmountable Peak the peak is not in sight we never we don't even see where it is that we're heading but the climb is the point of this life it's why we are put in this world the more meaning we can attribute to the journey the more of a goal and a purpose that we have the more clarity we have as to what it is we are doing and where we are going the easier it's going to be to sustain the uphill climb you know they say a story about Raa premishlan rlan that there's two versions of the story either going downhill or going uphill but the point is there was a Mikvah that was either at the bottom of a very icy Hill or the top top of a very icy hill and people were trying to reach the Mikan it was impossible they would take two steps and they would go sliding down the hill nobody's able to get there yet the Moll comes and no problem step by step by step by step he's standing ramrod straight and he gets to the mfun he doesn't slip and afterwards they asked him Reby why is it that every single one of us we tried to we tried to Traverse the hill yet we came slipping down we couldn't maintain our footing on the ice yet when the rebit tried to get to the Mikvah no problem it's as if there wasn't any ice at all and Ru answered when you're being held from above you don't fall when you're being held from above you don't fall now that's a MGA that's a very lofty level to be held from above and we may not all be there but let's at least try to hold on From Below let's try to hold on to From Below when we're in life and we're facing this uphill struggle when we don't see the peak when we don't see the destination before us and we want to bring Clarity and we want to bring and we want to bring purpose into the journey let's hold on from below the more we could bring a KES into our life the more we bring Hashem into the journey with us the more we go along this uphill Trek hand in hand together with Hashem the more purpose and meaning we're going to find the easier it'll be for us to sustain the uphill and the more possibility we'll see for what potentially lies ahead of us let's try to live a little higher and when we're facing these uphill stretches in our life let's try to hold on From Below hold on toes and realize that this is life life is a journey and the journey is the point and the way to sustain the journey over the long periods of uphill climbing is by bringing meaning by bringing purpose and by bringing Hashem even more into our lives