Reply To: Faith and Positiveness

Thanks, tahini and Goq!

aries, I am sorry for the terrible suffering and difficulty with emunah that you experienced when your father passed away. But as Goq said, it seems that you rebounded with a renewed energy and a bigger passion for believing that G-d does things for our best, and that is a truly beautiful thing. Sometimes it takes a setback for us to re-evaluate ourselves and push ourselves forward onto an even higher level of faith and understanding. Thanks so much for sharing that with us.

Syag, wow, that must have been a very difficult time for you, and I’m so sorry for the pain you must have been going through! I can’t even imagine what it must have been like. You are so strong to come out of it with your faith intact and your trust in G-d at the amazing level you are at. But I think aries is right, it isn’t healthy to think that we don’t deserve anything G-d gives to us, and that we “owe” Him when we receive something good. I really don’t think that’s what G-d wants us to be thinking. I think we should feel that we DO deserve all the goodness G-d gives, and really, that is everything, because G-d only gives us good. But we shouldn’t get carried away to the point that we consider it unfair when G-d doesn’t give us what we want. That would be counter-productive. So perhaps we shouldn’t expect anything, but when G-d does give us goodness, we should be thankful and fully believe we deserve it.