B"H (with the help of HaShem). We can look at a picture and see many things. We recognize those things because we are seeing from a distance. If we looked at our lives the same way, we would also see many things, many things that make up a beautiful picture.
There are bright spots and dark spots, highs and lows, vibrant colors contrasted by the mundane, fullness of life and stillness, bright light and clouds, clear paths and barriers. Just about everything you can think of is mixed into the tapestry of this picture we call life.
When we step back from that for a moment, we begin to realize that everything in the world is flowing according to the plan of HaShem. We become able to see a larger picture of reality in how He is working in the world, and perhaps, even the place of our part in it.
The journey began when it began. Along the way came many things. There's not necessarily any particular order when it comes to the insights and revelations received. It all has a place in HaShem's plan. He arranges the pieces into the final tapestry. We are only a part of it. It all came for a reason at a given time. We are only a piece, in this grand plan.
Here, I share pieces along my journey: insights, inspirations, thoughts, and struggles; maybe helpful, maybe inspirational, maybe an encouragement or confirmation. Maybe just a temporary pause, or the realization we are all in this struggle together. Even the righteous ones struggled with similar things. Study, prayer and staying close to HaShem help us through this journey of life.
With these pieces, it is also the hope they can be used to bring us into the true reality of why we are here, to face what we've been avoiding, and to offer some bits of how we can learn and grow a little closer toward HaShem. And maybe, it will help us to begin to see the world a little differently, as we come to recognize the working of HaShem in it all.
The things in this book can be helpful to anyone, and are written from a personal Jewish/Noahide perspective without the idolatry of xianity or any religion (note: Judaism isn't a religion, it's a covenant with HaShem).
