Part 26: Live Life in Color, Not Just Black and White

okay good morning everyone it is uh fantastic to resume all the classes is fantastic to resume but this one has a special place in my heart because I try to get something out of every class I teach but uh this class is a wonderful uh little support group we have for working on amuna so it's it's fantastic um this year our amuna class is being sponsored nously in loving memory of Shane v g b sh so I want to both thank our anonym sponsors and make sure that our learners is okay this morning we are going to try to make amuna great again we are going to uh work on amuna we're going to work on amuna at a time when um a lot of the country is uh you on mute okay all right you're now on mute okay you put on mute okay when much of the country is hung over from last night I think if they had some way of measuring the productivity level of the country today for different reasons but most of all the exhaustion level of people who stayed up half if not the whole night mostly for nothing could have gone to sleep at 10:00 a.m. if you were going to go to sleep at 2: a.m. at 10: p.m. if you sleep 2 a.m. but in any case we could all use a good burst of amuna so what we're going to study today um comes from the SL sh this was the previous who lived Ines a great a very special individual on many occasions both when taking missions to Israel even privately as a person I love to attend Tish insh is not something that you come across in bone Florida um it's really special when when you're in a base medress that is bleachers up the sides and the Reb is sitting at the table and you're observing or you're participating in his meal and the singing and the swaying and the dancing and there's a strong tradition of eating sh that what the rebba what a sadic has made contact with what he ate he transformed a food from Simply being a materal physical food into injecting a level of spirituality and so everyone who embies a piece of that somehow is also tasting from that which was transformed from the physical into the spiritual so there's a tradition of eating sh and many that I used to attend it took a lot of courage to participate I am a little bit of an inist a little bit of a uh sensitive in this area so in particularly rashash time they would pass around the honey and everyone would just pass it from each other's hands fingers but theb Tish always the only Tish I ever went to a plate and a fork and a napkin and in the bleachers they passed it around so I have a great affinity for theba both for his sense of hygiene and for his very and his very inspirational Torah so the on par have become somewhat famous in recent years this comes not from a safer of his and the par this comes from two volumes he has on philosophy on ashfa and on character on self-improvement and as you see the title is amuna amuna Faith is the song of the life of a Jew and again it's very important to Define our terms we spent a lot of time on this last year amuna is awareness knowledge confidence of God's existence that there's a creator of the universe that we're not here by chance that things aren't random there's a design and Order and meaning and purpose to the universe that's amuna means faith that he interacts with me that all that happens in my life and in the world around me is a result of his Providence of his Dominion so we use the term amuna when we're talking about having faith that God is behind what's happening that's really an inappropriate use of the term amuna is the philosophical conclusion that there is a God as opposed to so here we're talking about but we call it amuna faith is the found found ation of the existence and it is the breath that we breathe of a Jew to believe that there's a God to not conclude that life is random and chance and happen stance like air is to breath if you're denied air you're denied life a person who has no access to air suffocates you need air to breathe to be animated to be alive so amuna is the air that we breathe of a person who's living life with faith if you believe God exists then nothing is random nothing is chance if you lack that faith that there's meaning and purpose of God existence in our lives then everything is Chance says the lacking amuna lacking that faith that we're not here by chance and things that are happening are not by chance means that you cannot truly be a spiritual person spirituality the Jewish definition of spirituality is not singing Kumbaya is not on the top of a mountain is not feeling Transcendent or elevated you can achieve a level of mindfulness what we call hodus what we talked about at length on chabua you can achieve a lot of other character traits or or experiences powerful moments in time but genuine spirituality cannot occur without a foundation of the fact that there's a creator of the universe I'm not here by chance or accident things that happen in the world and my personal world are by design that I rely on him I depend on him I turn to him I love him he loves me he's intimately aware of and involved in my life and I seek an intimate connection and love with him and if one lacks that Foundation which I don't mean to in any way minimize or suggest is easy right oh yeah that Foundation remember you know love God feel connected to God be dependent on God and feel him every moment of your life I don't mean to suggest that it's that it's easy um but that Foundation is the source of true genuine spirituality so in other words the Jew who lives life with a column did this Mitzvah keep kosher keep shabas do this said this and there that check check check check check check s yeah littlez yeah great next got to light the kanaka candles going to blow the chauffeur going to check check check check check but in the end of the day they lack that feeling of confidence of awareness of the presence of the almighty in their life they don't feel his guiding hand on their shoulder they don't feel that hug when they need it they don't feel a sense of frustration with him when they feel he's abandoned them or or anger even we've talked about the role of anger anger too being an expression of amuna they don't have a a sense protest Hashem two young people have been diagnosed with cancer I'm protesting that that's not acceptable I'm not that's not that's not okay change that that's not we're not accepting it we're protesting it that if you lack that feeling even if you're doing all the right things on the outside check check check check check you know it's like in marriage like what what do you mean you don't know if I love you I put a check I brought you the flowers every Friday check I got you a card for the anniversary check I provide a roof over your head you do this for me we do this for check check check check check but you never ever feel a sense of affection of intimacy you never confide in me there's no love yeah but what do you mean check check check check check like what what's the problem what's what's the joke they say about the the rabbi who says to the husband you know your wife is is feeling alienated she's not sure you love her she doesn't feel closeness to you and the husband says I don't understand the Rabbi says well you know do you ever say you I love love you to your wife he said I I said it when's the last time you said I love you to your wife he said I said it on on our wedding night 25 years ago and I've never ascended it since then so it stands so a relationship needs a relationship needs nurturing it needs nourishment and the same is true in our relationship with Hashem it's not just about putting the checks in all the columns of doing the right things externally if doing all those right things are not informed and alive and inspired by this acute sense of Hashem is in my life Hashem runs the world and and with that I just want to add one word I just said this in another class in the the cup of joe at SCH but I'm going to say it again I have no comment on the election I don't want to talk about which candidate would have been better or is the fact that Donald Trump it's unimaginable even saying those words but president Trump is our next is our next president is that good is that bad I don't want to comment on that I don't I don't for a whole host of reasons but I want to comment on the following what I think was was tragically missing from so much of the rhetoric not among the population at large but as observant Jews as spiritual Jews what was missing from so much of our conversation is God is the idea that yes we do our best to identify and analyze candidates yes we do our best to even Advocate or Lobby yes in the end of the day we walk into that voting booth your will tell you when I walked in shaking literally over yesterday and the decision and the challenge of it and the consequence of it and I said to ofum before I decided what to put the pen to the ballot but we do everything we can and ultimately we we we take advantage of the incredible blessing in our life to be able to vote but when all said and done we have to realize that that the heart of Kings is in the hand of God and that yes we elect our leaders and yes leaders ultimately are a reflection of the people but there's also a God who runs the world and people could not Ascend to that most powerful position in the entire world if it were not somehow part of a master plan and I say that about the last eight years and I say that about the next four years right which represent different parties and different philosophies and whichever one you were thrilled by and whichever one you're devastated by but both could not happen without the will and the consent of the almighty himself and so you know it's painful for me this morning to see what I think are excessive reactions in both directions we as observant Jews should be more cautious in our reactions in both both directions at an early minion I went to this morning I think very grossly inappropriately thean finished the repetition of the Amid and a few voices screamed out Hal and to which a number of other voices responded we should say the long and that really reflects the division in this country right both both were grossly grossly inappropriate in the middle of our doing but the ramban has a comment Torah tells us Los it says we are children of God is one and the very next is means you can't take a razor and cut your skin why would I ever take a razor and cut my skin I need to be told that I can't cut myself so Rashi explains that the the other contemporary nations of the world as an expression of more we cut our clothing we sit low to the ground other cultures would actually cut their skin they would they would cut their own flesh to show their own pain as an expression of grieving and the ran says what's the connection between and what's the continuity between the verse we children of God don't cut yourself and the ran says something so beautiful he says we as Jews grieve you lose a loved one there's a sense of loss it's painful of course we grieve but we don't grieve excessively because when you grieve excessively what you're saying is I've been separated from my loved one and I will never be reunited with them again there is no afterlife there is no world to come there is no Resurrection there is no future this is it it's over and I'm inconsolably devastated and when you grieve excessively what you've done is knock out out of the equation you've knocked the whole Jewish philosophy out of the equation so we cry and we grieve and that's part of the Jewish experience but we don't grieve excessively and that's my feeling after last night's historic election is that whether those who are grieving excessively or those who are celebrating excessively nobody knows what the future holds or what we will say in 6 months or a year or 4 years about how this will turn out devastatingly irreversibly horrible or somehow wonderful we don't know what we do know is that the election's over and now it's in the hands of Hashem so if we want to if we have some sense this morning of pain Channel it intoa if you're extremely worried about what the future holds if you're extremely excited about what the future holds Channel it into prayer to Hashem for whatever the outcome is that you want but I think that these dichotomous reactions of either you know being so deep state of depression and Devastation or Glee and excitement and euphoric we don't know we don't know we don't know what the future holds in either direction we should have done our advocacy and lob when we could it's over and decided and and make amuna great again amuna as observant truth I understand if you don't believe in God and you think that everything was about the results of that election and the person elected okay I understand having those one of two the reactions I get that but if you believe in God and you are a student of history and you see God's hand in the unfolding of History then you believe his hand will be present in the unfolding of Destiny and that doesn't mean that you should be happy it doesn't mean you should be sad it just means be cautious in your reaction in either direction and have a sense of Amun I just had to get that off my chest okay let's continue what is Amun what is the charge of amuna so again it's not right so by the way you could go to sh this morning check check check I did this I did that I did the other thing check observant you check check check but if you don't wake up today and say it's in hashem's hands then you're missing the core Foundation of a Jewish life of a spiritual life to be a spiritual person is not check I said DAV check I said to check I kosher che che those are all critically important things but at the root the of all of them is what it means to be a spiritual person is that all of those external behaviors contribute to the internal sense of faith that I am in a relationship and I want to nurture and nourish it so the charge of in the life of a Jew is listen is Hashem Our God there is one Hashem this verse it's the soul of all of Judaism it is the song it's the poem of the life of a Jew our life begins with this verse when a child is brought into the bris of we don't say this but do I guess does as well but at the bris of welcoming a child into the Covenant of a it is proclaimed what's the last thought as you close your eyes at night as you reflect on your day and you anticipate the day that is to come that last thought as you close your eyes is to say you know what I'm going to interpret what happened to me today and I'm going to anticipate what will happen tomorrow all through the prism of there's Hashem he's our God he's involved in our life and Hashem in the end of the day he is the source of absolutely everything when a child begins to speak we teach them this verse and then the beginning in the morning right we say in the ding in the morning that fortunate blessed are we who wake up and go to sleep and we we we unify your name every day and we call out twice be twice a day in the morning and evening lovingly we Proclaim we remind ourselves we affirm our belief that things aren't random and they're not chance and whatever happened to me today whatever is going to happen to me tomorrow Hashem it's all you how do we Ender we spend 24 hours purifying ourselves living as Angels transcending the physical Temptations and pleasures of the world and how do we end as Angels what do we Proclaim and at the end of our please God long life when we have finished our mission in this world right before we take our last breath what's the V that we say the confession we say with someone on their deathbed right before their soul is extracted from their body I think has demonstrated for us that is the motto of the Jewish people shma is the poem that that is the rhythm of the life of a Jew from when we're born twice a day every night we go to sleep at the end of yum Kipper and um and uh and at the end of our life Faith amuna is the Beloved altar upon which million of Jews have shed their tears we have a Heritage we have a family heirloom it's called shma that throughout history whether it was in the Inquisition or the Crusades or expulsions or the Holocaust there Israeli soldiers going out to battle who they shed a tear or the last words on their lips as they sacrificed and paid the ultimate sacrifice for being a Jew with these words of shma and was their demonstration of amuna faith such beautiful language that faith is the Beloved altar upon which millions of Jews have left or shed their tears and they offered their soul with this Holy Fire they climbed onto the altar right I mean think about it really it's much more logical that Jews who were being persecuted and oppressed and murdered their final words would be where are you God there is no God there is no God where are you God life is Godless that's a much more logical final statement for someone being murdered to say but instead millions of Jews throughout Jewish history did the opposite they demonstrated unbelievable unfathomable faith you're very popular woman with your phone over here ringing every two minutes even when we are blessed to not have to face that test of giving our lives of being murdered of being persecuted and oppressed our life too should be informed and inspired by that same sense of all water in the world cannot extinguish the spark of faith in the heart of a Jew even those who are who are immersed in the depths of of of ganam you know it's it's what he's saying how how all the water in the world can't extinguish even the tiny spark of faith in the heart of a Jew I've interacted with a lot of Jews who think of themselves as agnostics or atheists but you know the whole there's no atheist in a foxhole when push comes to shove and in that moment that spark is there some have successfully fanned the flame so the spark is a raging fire others it's like a pilot light sometimes it's a high flame sometimes it's a low flame but it's there and some who don't even know it's there have this pilot light lit inside them nonetheless because that's what it means to be the progeny of a and yov of they developed within our genetics within the Jewish DNA that we pass forward to each generation that spark the pint of theid that spark that I'm not just here it's not random it's not chance it's not by accident that there's there's a purpose there's a meaning there's an order that there's something greater than myself out there I yes questions absolutely um do you believe that yes everybody has a spark but do you believe some people's spark is much stronger than others or everyone has the same spark and we can all spark as strong as maybe it's like a genetic thing or a personality thing or it's a good question it's a good question I I think that innately you know I'm a big believer that there are certain things which we know innately um and don't need to be learned and the job of life is not to is not to suppress or erase the things that we know innately not to become bribed by the experience of this world so that we're so clouded that we pretend that what we know innately isn't true I'll give you just an example of a of AAR Torah that the whole conversation between Ken and Hashem Ken and he two brothers each offered a sacrifice he is accepted C is not K gets up and kills his brother and God says to him hey Ken the blood of your brother's calling out to me from the ground what happened to which says am I My Brother's Keeper and it's a whole bizarre conversation like God didn't know what happened and Ken thought that he was going to be able to get away with it what exactly were they having this conversation about and one of the great commentators who is it I mentioned it at my nephew's bar MIT a few weeks ago was it the kayaker I think it was the CL somebody explains that what's happening in the conversation is the following Ken turns to God and he says you know God you told Adam you told Dad you can't eat theas the tree of knowledge when did he tell any of us we can't murder where does it say I can't murder how did I know we got in a fight my brother ticked me off I took a rock and I cracked open his head but where does it say I can't do that so when you tell me that my brother's blood is crawling out crying out from the ground where does it say that I'm not allowed to do that to which God responds if you look at his response according to this interpretation God's response is there's some things I don't need to tell you there are things you need to learn and there are things that you innately should know and this you should have known innately you need to have a moral compass innately and I think that there are a lot of things in our life including the idea that there's something a baby is born and they know they have parents and they rely and depend exclusively on their parents and that baby who's not sophisticated enough to develop this thought but probably subconsciously or innately knows it well if I have parents and my parents have parents and they have parents and you get back to the first set of parents there must be some ultimate greater parent or first cause for the universe that the child knows or ints from the womb then what's our job I think we've learned or we've shared in the past this Insight of student of the excuse me he was murdered by the Nazis so writes he says you know the great Aristotle debated whether God exists we have the most brilliant physicists today who struggle with the idea that God exists and yet a girl turns 12 and a boy turns 13 and we say to them you're now obligated in all mitos welcome it's your bar mitzvah and included in those Mitzvah is so you now have to believe in God can't the child say Aristotle wasn't true and stepen Hawking not sure it's not sure and I'm 13 years old and you're expecting me to be able to take that leap of faith how can the Torah demand of the 12 or 13y old what many sophisticated adults struggle to achieve and R has a great great great Insight I think is so true he says you know you would be right if a parent or teacher had to first start to teach Faith to the 12 and 13year old but we don't from when a child emerges from the womb they Inuit it that there is a God a greater power of being a creator of the universe our job as parents is not to mess it up by their 12th or 13th birthday Now the default is to Intuit it that there's a God don't blow it and be so cynical and sarcastic and jaded that by 12 or 13 your kid also doesn't believe there's a God in the world that's the mission so the default is not there's no God and now we have this impossible task of teaching them there is a God the default is there is a God and now don't mess it up and as I've shared many times you know I think and I grew as parents into this differently with our younger kids than our older ones but you know a parent with younger kids can either say Well they're kids they don't understand this so I never talk about God or you can always talk about God you know oh did you thinkk Hashem before you ate the cake oh isn't hashm amazing he gave us this parking spot did you thank Hashem that we had this incredible trip to Israel and Hashem has blessed us in so many ways without Hashem we could never have it so parents can either choose to use the language of God in make it a presence in their kids' life in which Cas by 12 or 13 the kids like yeah we talk about Hashem all the time I love hm I look for hm I think about hm I talk about hem or you know your child could either never hear it or even worse yet hear a cynicism and sarcasm and about the people who are into Hashem do our children ever see us get lost in davening do they ever see a shed a tear in daving is there anything more powerful to make a child believe that you really believe there's God than to see you talking to him and lose it you know when you're talking to him while you're also putting the dishes in the sink you know you deserve a lot of credit you're getting the daving in it's not easy particularly for for young mothers but if you're getting daving in while you're multi asking God bless you it's amazing but does the child really know that you really are having a conversation with the almighty omnipotent being when you're you know driving carpool while doing or or doing the dishes or still uh whatever you're you're getting done versus have they ever got a glimpse have they ever caught you really lost in your davening seeing you talking to Hashem the same way you're on the phone with your best friend you're talking about something really important you tell your kid you know like not now can't you see I'm having an important conversation I need to talk to this person about that thing do they perceive the same thing when they're interrupting you're talking to Hashem not now can't you see I'm pouring out my heart to the King of Kings so I think that um does everyone have the same spark to a certain degree I think that we all have this this internal anchor or Compass or we have this Nama which intuits and knows there's an Almighty but at the same time there's no question that everybody has a different baggage if you grow up in the in the lap of atheists and you grow up suffering and struggling and hardship and you grow up with everything stacked against your believing in God is going you can't say that you're you have the same starting line as a person who grew up in the most holy home where hashem's presence was felt and were taught blah blah blah so I don't want to say that everybody starts from square one that's why the progress people make really is more important than where they are it's not a question of where you find yourself which rung of the ladder it's a question of where you started and where you ended up I I I think that's true not just for amuna that's that's true in hashem's relationship with us about everything there are people who started out on one of the top rungs and they end up somewhere in the middle they people who started out towards the bottom and they end up towards the middle just beneath it so if you're looking objectively the person who started towards the top is on a higher rung than the the other person but I don't think God looks objectively who's on which rung I think he wants to know where we started in which direction we're headed in which direction we're heading in the bottom right paragraph on the first page so hinda we will not get through the whole booklet today but we're we're this is going to be our course of study for the next few weeks is the song of life in the happiest blessed fortunate moments you know is what you sing when everything works out and everything comes together and everything makes sense and you feel that sense of Joy Euphoria happiness so that same character trait of amuna we employ in the diametrically opposite moments of our life in the greatest highs of our M life we should feel overwhelmed with that sense of of I'm unworthy and I'm grateful and Hashem and it's amazing and in the darkest moments of our life to tap into that which is a very important Hebrew word tragic and the tragic words in the most tragic moments every funeral I officiate Begins by helping the people teara and say this blessing blessed are you Hashem the judge of truth you're the judge of truth I don't understand why you operate the world you do I'm not happy about it this is a very painful decision you've done to me God but you're the judge of Truth a we just read in we said every funeral God you are the The Rock The Rock of righteousness all of your ways are just God of faith that didn't just see in his success and happiest moments in the darkest bleakest moments you feel hashem's guiding supporting hand is the the richness the blessing The Gift of Life when you're in that zone where you see and everything and you feel his presence and you lean on him and you rely on him and you're talking to him when that relationship is running on all cylinders you're alive you're never more alive you're never more connected to everything happening in your your life the pleasure of feeling connected to Hashem far surpasses any other pleasure now it's legal to have medical marijuana in Florida as of today yeah but far surpassing far surpassing any other pleasure that exists is the pleasure is the high asite is this week a special shomo minion Friday night but as shaloma wrote in one of his famous songs Lord get me high and I don't know if an amend had pass not pass but at least uh I I believe he was speaking about uh getting high on God that we we have the ability through amuna to get high on God to get high on God sometimes you meet those people they're really obnoxious you know how's everything amazing Hashem is amaz I love Hashem what's happened you terrible they start to tell you all these terrible things in their life but they're like but Hashem is amazing and and it's going to work out and I believe in hem and you know we're annoyed by those people cuz you're like are they for real are they for real but but they are and and they're more alive than the people who are grasping and struggling and looking it may not be a coping mechanism it's they are tuned into a reality of of a of a matrix they're they're connected in a deeper it's like they have a they have a higher speed connection and says at least in his experience that the opposite is also true when you see somebody who is going has a dark cloud that is concealing their faith and feelings of loneliness and disconnection from their father alienation from their father in Heaven such a person is in a state of depression they're despondent they're low they're in a low low place place so what what's the calculation you know the the what calibrates kind of where you are in a good place a happy place a bright place a strong prepared place to take on whatever the world throws your way versus a weak limping dark doubtful despondent place is how your amuna is doing of amuna the pure gives a unique perspective on everybody else right so kind of as we were alluding to earlier that the pundits are interpreting the election results one way but they're all guessing as the pollsters all proved that all they were doing was guess grasping in the dark but if you live your life with a sense of faith that says I don't need to read every article I don't do everything I do my research I vote for who I think is right and at the end of the day my perspective is that it's up to Hashem that God runs the world so living with a fa sense of faith and being able ble to interpret all that occurs in your world and the world with a sense of Faith gives you a unique and strong and powerful perspective on the world NRA with the song of amuna you can hear the the sounds that are being proclaimed from all around you there glorious music being sung all around us every flower every plant every animal every cloud every view every every person is an expression of the almighty in this world so all of the natural world and all the world around us is singing the song of of God but is our radio tuned in is our antenna can our antenna pick it up so when your antenna can pick it up you're living life in in color and if your antenna doesn't pick it up you're living life in black and white you're just engaging in a world where you're not hearing the music that's being sung and played all around you so isn't it much more amazing when you hear the music it's great it moves you but that's amuna to see everything you know going on when we were in Israel for sucus and it's not reserved you know I think that there are some in this way I really admire spartum in particular even those who are less observant less emphasis on the check check check check check but the so I I was helping my sister who was meeting with a tile guy over was Ona morning this guy who's covered in tattoos and we're carrying the tile and I just came from H daving forever that morning and I'm wearing a tie because it's a quasa Yanti and I think I'm so religious and we're carrying this tile and the guy in tattoos is telling me you know today is the today is really the end of the Judgment it's a very very important day hos Raba you know and then we're going into the modian mall and there's some some guy literally covered in tattoos and piercings and some Israeli Sparty guy he's going through the metal detector and I see him go back out again because he had missed kissing the muuza on his way in you know it was just a beautiful beautiful sight um not necessarily the artwork but the the kissing the mizza was a beautiful beautiful site so you know what the slam Reb is trying to get us to do is to realize don't just focus on the check check check don't focus on the flowers and the anniversary card you know and doing all that's also important to a relationship got that just like the flowers and card are important to the relationship but the foundation of the relationship is affection and love and time giving time to the other person so so to our relationship with God the check check check of mitzvos are the flowers and the cards they're important but at the core if there's no love and there's no affection and there's no you know what God I was about to lose it and now I just realized I forgot that you're involved in my life I was about to get angry at that other person and look to take revenge against them I just remembered that whatever happens in my life you're part of it I was about to to struggle with stress and worry and anxiety and not know how I'm going to get everything done for what I have to do and then I remembered that I could lean on and rely on you and that somehow it's all going to work out that's what it means to be affectionate and to give that love to God last paragraph to have that sense of faith for your life to be filled with that sense of God's presence gives a person a a vision and a there's there's meat there's meaning to your life substance and it nurtures you to be able to feel your unique mission in this world right that's has a whole other beautiful piece which that A's test of where's the test God says I'm making you a great n you don't have any children here follow me I'm going to give you children you have poverty here follow me I'm going to make you one of the wealthiest people in the world nobody knows you here follow me I'm going to give you Fame and we say oh what a tough test for a where's the tough test says the the test was go go discover who you are go find yourself don't just blend in with the crowd don't just be one of many what's your unique Mission given your life circumstance your background your skill set what are you uniquely positioned to contribute to the world that nobody else can it's the journey to right God doesn't ever tell AB where he's going he just says leave your father's household and we say oh that's part of the test is that he's on this mysterious Journey he has no no uh no coordinates to plug into his GPS but that's not it God does tell Abraham the destination you know where the destination was the destination is self-discovery so says the where do we find the strength and the courage to go on that journey of self-discovery and to figure out what's our unique mission in the world we find it by living a life of because to live a meaningful life is to feel that you have a sense of purpose and what's the highest sense of purpose the greatest sense of purpose is to feel that you're on a mission from a great person if somebody the greater the person who calls you asking you to do a mission the more focused devoted honored You Are by having that mission so if God Almighty Taps you to do a certain Mission boy you're going to be dedicated to that mission so if you want to feel a sense of purpose in life and meaning in life the more you have amuna in God and the more you feel he's tapped you to fulfill that purpose the more Drive you'll have there's nothing more beloved to the almighty than one of his agents fulfilling his agency and you can overcome whatever challenges come your way if you feel I what do you mean I can't stop going I've got a purpose I've got a mission I'm not slowing down I'm not going to let let that stop me I'm not going to let that derail me I'm on a mission from God I have something to accomplish blessed fortun is the nation who have this gift of amuna that gives life this meaning this purpose this energy this happiness this perspective this antenna to hear the music that's playing all around us have a fantastic rest of the week we really miss before everybody goes can I just say something on December 11th it's The Sisterhood Women's Health and Hala day