Who Are You Fighting Today?

There's a lot to fight for me every day: My ambitions to always think too good about people and then become betrayed and hurt. To always be treaten abusive within my trainee, because the context is using abuse to regulate itself. To always not be able to wake up in time, because I need to escape from my environment somehow. To be not strong enough not to feel anger against my abusers, because that nourishes them to continue with abusive behavior. To always believe in that good arguments could bring some change into people's way of thinking, because in truth it is just a moment of insight, familiar attitudes always corrupt them to fall back into their evil inclination. To feel responsible for the unknown of other people, because I believe in that knowledge could help them to overcome darkness. That might sound contra intuitive, but that's part of my reality, that everything that has a great value for me is mistreated with falsehood. And I struggle with that. Reply

Facing ourselves, our weaknesses, and our hidden truths, can be a terrible struggle. In that battle, you are both the winner and the loser. The trouble with the human race is that most of them think that they can live without G-d. But it can not. And that's why fighting with ourselves is the hardest. Reply

My husband and I are fighting a real tragedy; he has brain cancer and when I channel HaShem I remain sane and more optimistic. However, I have my struggles with why him? He’s such a good man. He’s unable to get his thoughts across and once he made his living by being an international speaker. My pain is inmensurable and the work never ending. I struggle. Reply

Dear Mrs Weisberg,  thank you so much for this instruction. When I woke up in the night,  I could not sleep and I felt overwhelmed from destructive thoughts, based on experience the last week and I felt a little bit sick inside and very uncomfortable. But your words give me new perspectives and a chance to challenge all what will come the next time,  because it is as you say: I am not alone, there are people outside in the World,  they will support me. Thank you so much. Reply

thank you for your inspiring article Reply

Just what I needed to hear Chana, once again your words of wisdom come at a time when I have been thrown into an ongoing battle initiated by my sister. She has dad on her side as he believes everything she says including negative things about me that are not true. My mom used to help me in my family battles on my side, but due to her dementia, she is out of the picture. And, I have been feeling alone against my sister and dad you yells at me over anything my sister pushes.

Now, I realize that I'm not alone, and that with prayer to Hashem, I have the BEST on my team. Perhaps, Hashem created the situation with my family, and even my mother so that I would look to Him for help.

It's a battle I never asked for, but dad's free will put my sister in charge of mom and financial decisions if she outlives him, but my sister already has been in the fray. I have offered to help with mom (I'm an RN), but I have been pushed away.

Only Hashem has the wisdom to know the future., & this if for my spiritual growth. Reply

Thanks for helping me apply this Scripture in my day to day life! Reply

So beautiful! Juan Reply

Thank you for this inspirational post. I love the "You have a divine soul that is perfect and untarnished in spite of your struggles. So just get back up, re-energized, and begin anew." People often get wrapped up in the loss, the negative and give up. After all, it is easy to give up, easy to walk away, easy to quit.....but is it? I think when the regrets people have are the battles they gave up on, the walk aways. It is hard to get back up and start anew but it is so rewarding when you do and achieve what you might have thought was impossible. Reply

Your article is quite encouraging. Thank you. Reply