Permanent Mooring: Hashem is the Best Anchor

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 10^th 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.