She is everywhere, He is everywhere
FemaleJewishBlogger on August 17th, 2009
I think G-d is moving us in directions that we want to go.
I think that if I or someone else tries to connect with G-d as if She can be expected to always seem the same, then we are underestimating G-d.
I don’t have an idea of how G-d is really supposed to be. If I say, “you should seem like this, or how I imagine G-d to be holy,” isn’t that missing the point?
How can I know how G-d is going to seem this time I see Her?
Do I know what my friends will be like when I go to meet them for coffee or they are picking up for carpool one morning? Do I know what clothes they are going to wear or expression they will have on their faces? Do I know their mood? Can I expect a particular tone of voice? Or am I most likely to meet a true self in my friend if I don’t expect, but just wait and see?
January 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
The gemara says that those who come to purify themselves are assisted from Above. Those that come to defile themselves are also assisted because the way a person wants to go is the way Heaven leads him.
Sometimes the way you think you want to go isn’t the right way and God, in His infinite wisdom, makes things a little more difficult in order to encourage you to go in the right direction. Rav Eliyahu Dessler, in Michtav MiEliyahu, points out that sometimes if you think you’re struggling against the stream, this is a good thing because you’re expending energy in the right direction and will be rewarded for it.