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It's okay to be anxious there. If you're
not anxious, check if you're alive
rather than be a ther thermometer who
simply reports how we feel. What gives
us access to control the thermostat?
If you're fearless, you're in danger of
losing your life. If you're fearless, if
you go up and try to take a picture, a
selfie with a bear in Montana, you're a
Dearb gober is a continuation of
the previous email.
me and my husband are expecting. Thank
God I feel so grateful, especially after
the miscarriage. I really feel like
Hashem answered all my tilos. But I
can't help but also feel anxious and
I'll tell you why. My first pregnancy
with my daughter was a roller coaster.
At our anatomy scan, we received the
news that my daughter had a very poor
prognosis. They gave us all the worst
outcomes. I started going to the
high-risisk doctor twice a week. They
prepared me to deliver as early as 26
weeks. Hashem proved them all wrong and
I ended up making it to 37 weeks. My
daughter was only three pounds. The
doctor told us she was the smallest 37
weaker he'd ever seen. Hashem, she was a
total complete miracle, and I thank
Hashem every day. She's now a thriving,
healthy toddler living her best life,
and we're so incredibly grateful. My
anatomy scan for this pregnancy is
coming up this weekend. And although I
keep telling myself everything will be
okay, and my daughter's living proof
that doctors can be wrong. I need to
have a nash. I can't help but feel
scared and anxious. I tried ignoring my
feelings of fear and distracting myself,
telling myself again and again that I
need a muna and it's wrong to feel
anxious. But then I realized something
very important and I changed my
thinking. Your sh have helped me
internalize that having amuna does not
mean you should ignore your feelings of
fear. For me right now amuna means that
I'm anxious but I know that Hashem is
holding my hand through it all and that
I'm not alone. And that in itself
provides me with so much comfort. My
feeling of anxiety have not gone away
and I'm not ignoring them. Having amuna
means that I am where I meant to be. So
I embracing my anxious thoughts but also
thinking positively at the same time.
And yes, you can do both. Thank you for
the physic. looking forward to sharing
good news
hashem. So again I like this also
because this is a theme that we keep
coming back to
don't take away our humanity. They don't
ask you to be a robot. They don't demand
of you to deny or to suppress your
feelings and mean you are human and we
have human feelings and emotions and
reactions. But do is they empower us to
be the thermostat not the thermometer.
That's what do I'll continue that
analogy. You know in a scholar public
place often the thermostat is under lock
and key who has access
but you give it to the highest bidder
>> sh the largest donation you get to
control the temperature in the rand
sanctuary we'll add it to the shul
dinner auction list controlling the
thermostat but it's a you know it's a
it's a privilege who gets access to the
thermostat today it's not under a
literal lock and key today who has the
app with the password to virtually
control the temperature. Amuna and give
us the key to our thermometer to our
thermostat rather than just be a
thermometer who reports this is how I
feel. I can't change it. I can't control
it. I'm anxious. I'm scared. I'm
worried. I'm unhappy. I'm miserable.
Rather than be a ther thermometer who
simply reports how we feel. What gives
us access to control the thermostat?
But it begins by realizing I'm cold or
you know it's very hot in here. The
thermostat begins with recognizing I'm
not comfortable with the temperature. I
want to change the thermostat. It's okay
to be anxious. There are if you're not
anxious check if you're alive. There are
situations in life that you need to be
anxious. We spoke about this last week
or two weeks ago. The most dangerous
thing are the children who are fearless.
Right? We spoke about the toons, the
tourist morons who hang on the edge of
the cliff.
If you're fearless, you're in danger of
losing your life. If you're fearless, if
you go up and try to take a picture, a
selfie with a bear in Montana, you're a
You're a You're a tourist
a toan. And there's no shortage of them.
Fear is very healthy. And don't mean
don't have fear. They mean regulate it,
control it, be in charge of it. and give
us the key and the password to be able
to figure it out and to be able to
navigate it. So, I love that email.
You're going for a scan and previously
you had challenges. You wouldn't be
alive if you weren't a little bit
anxious, a little nervous, a little
excited to find out and to see what
Hashem has in store on that scan. That's
healthy. That's called being alive. Now,
what do you do with it? Do you say it
to? Do you lean into it with a Do you
recognize and embrace your place that
Hashem is with you in that scan?
