BS’D
Making the transition to emuna living entails three essential steps:
- Awareness: Hashem is all powerful, all knowing and in absolute control
- Appreciation: Hashem desires our welfare and directs everything from a point of endless compassion for us
- Acceptance: We are limited and cannot grasp Divine understanding
Anxiety levels are greatly reduced when we live with the keen awareness that we are in Hashem’s hands and no one else. His infinite love outlines His sovereignty. How can we possibly fathom such selfless love showered to us constantly without condition?
When these three points are deeply internalized fear withdraws, our heart gladdens, we feel secure and Tefillah flows freely. Talking to Hashem comes naturally when we don’t resent the circumstances of our lives and ‘judge Hashem in favor.’
Emuna requires constant practice and internalizing; it’s reward absolute clarity. To the measure that we strive to overcome our ‘natural way of thinking’ and logical interpretations of life’s circumstances, so too will Hashem shower yeshuot in the most ‘unnatural’ and marvelous way.
