God Willing
The use of the phrase “God willing” seems weird to me. Folks say, “God willing, I’ll be picking up my dry cleaning.” Does Hashem really care about their dry cleaning?
The use of the phrase “God willing” seems weird to me. Folks say, “God willing, I’ll be picking up my dry cleaning.” Does Hashem really care about their dry cleaning?
Trying to travel the fast lanes of modern living without spiritual awareness is like driving in the Indy 500 with your eyes closed – and that puts you in big danger of crashing.
Because God is concealed from us, we forget that He is the Source of everything and that He is involved in every aspect of our lives and in every aspect in creation, ongoing.
Even really level-headed people sometimes morph from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde over a person in a car in front of them not seeing that the light has changed.
The American work ethic tells me us that anything is within reach if we’re willing to exert ourselves enough – spiritually, such world views take us to the wrong places...
Free will on the one hand and Hashem’s involvement in every aspect of existence on the other - it can be tough to figure out where one ends and the other begins...