Consider moments during the past year that seemed, on the surface, to be particularly bleak, but in hindsight, when looking at the bigger picture, things turned out much better than expected.
In the thirteenth Mishna of the second chapter of Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, we are taught, “Go out and discern which is the proper way to which a man should cling. Rabbi Eliezer says: A good eye…” A “good eye” means seeing the good and displaying an attitude of tolerance to another. If we are able to do that, vis a vis the people with whom we come in contact, perhaps we can do that in our relationship with the Al-mighty by recognizing that His actions are for the good even if we don’t always recognize the positive outcome in the moment when something in our life occurs.
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