Imagine if you were an actor, only you had to be yourself instead of acting a different role. Granted, you'd only do things that made you look favorable. Because, after all, you're on stage and everyone can see what your doing, even if the character your playing is YOU.
Now pretend that the audience can hear your thoughts. Then what you would you do? Even in situations, that arouse on stage, that you were uncomfortable with and you therefore attempted to hide your discomfort, the audience would know what was really going on in your head.
So how would you fix this problem? Would you have to change your thoughts all together? Change you perspective so that even your thoughts were good and didn't embarrass you? You'd then need to judge everyone favorably, so that no matter what happens during the play, you see them in a positive light and your thoughts are only good and pure.
Well, it's a good thing that people can't read our minds, because if we were in that position, where is was necessary to watch what we think and how we view others then we'd have a lot of work to do.
Guess what, G-d 'hears' our thoughts. He knows what our true motives are. Now, we're not all garbage, we're upright standing Jews, and if you're reading this and know me then you one of the 10% of our nation who are doing a lot more mitzvout then the other 90% (unfortunately :-( )
But then again, being that we're part of such a small percent we carry more responsibility for our actions.
Hm..... well then. I think I've made my point pretty clear, but I'll restate it just in case.
We're on a stage. That stage is called life. During this life we encounter many people as well build ourselves and try to reach our potential. Many times, most of the times, we encounter people who are quit different from ourselves, and we therefore tend to look down on them for it. (and often, they are very similar to ourselves and we may still look down on them for it.) I think that it's a very important practice to try and look at everything positively. I know that it's hard, but it's necessary. Not only will it help to develop ourselves into better and happier ovedei HaShems, but it will help us to stop speaking lashon hara, and encourage seeing a situation in dam lecaf zechus.
May we all be zochei to have strength to realize what our hishtadlus is in every situation and the courage to fulfill it and see it through to the end. Kol Hakavod to all of you.
YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE SPECIAL AND PART OF THE 10% OF OUR NATION THAT IS SHOMER. ALL THE POWER TO YOU AND MAY YOU ONLY BE SHOWERED WITH DEW.
8 comments:
What a powerful message. To add to your thought Sarah Rut, just imagine after 120 years we go upstairs...everything that encountered in our lives will be shown...every thought...every emotion..thanks!
thank you leah for your comment. thank you for expounding on my point and making it so much more powerful. not only does He hear and see NOW but if we really don't smarten up it will all be shown after 120 years
amein, pshhhhhh......i love being able to get back into your head....so now summer's back on, do YOU have time for five emails a day??? hehe :-)
um, five a day? i don't know. try me and we'll see how many i can manage? i'm taking a computer course in sept. so i'll be on the computer a lot?
Yes, I like what you're saying here Sarahle, but I think you overstated your percentage. I mean, Jews are less than 1% of the world population, and religious Jews are only a small percentage of that, so how can we be 10% of the nation. It's more like .0001% of the nation. Talk about rare and special, eh?
I'm saying 10% of our nation. not 10% of the world
Oh, you mean 10% of the Jewish Nation? LOL - this is what happens when you're in a non-frum college and you talk about The Nation on a general basis. I thought you meant the American Nation or something... Thanks for clarifying!
Oh, and did I mention that I really like your stage picture?
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