Permanent
Mooring: Hashem is the Best Anchor
by Adam Chaim Rubin
Life moves fast. We
shift from one experience to the next and often feel the transience, the
fleeting moments, in a profound way.
A person is in college There
is a whole world of friends, buildings, classes, and teams. Then comes
graduation and the whole world disappears.
A person is involved in his
first job. There are colleagues, reports, new skills, deadlines, and special
occasions. Then he leaves for another job. That whole scene vanishes in what
seems to be an instant.
How do we cope with
being pulled out of one situation to the next, acknowledging feelings that had deep
roots, scenes that seemed so permanent?
The answer: Hashem.
Hashem is truly constant. Hashem is truly enduring. He never leaves. He
never vanishes. From one scene to the next, He’s there with us every step of
the way. He remembers when your heart was broken; He was there. He remembers
when you gave that report in front of your 10th grade English class;
He was there for that, too. He remembers when you sat down to your first
Shabbos meal with a Torah-observant family; He was beaming!
So the next time you are
looking for a thread to connect all of those seemingly disconnected and
disparate dots on your journey on this spinning ball of rock, look no further
than Hashem.
If we recognize that
Hashem is the foundation of all of our experiences, that Hashem was the
Orchestrator of all of our seemingly disconnected stops, we can feel a stronger
sense of continuity and connectedness; two important “C” words that often elude
us.
This wisdom can enable
us to not to plant our roots too deeply
in the temporal situations we find ourselves in, whether geographically,
financially, educationally, or otherwise. Rather, we can focus on sinking our
roots in the only Thing that won’t change, hasn’t changed, and never will
change.
Hashem.
Now that’s an enduring
thought.