The other day I was helping a friend build a computer. We were putting the fans in the box and we could not reach the corner of one to attach it to the frame. We could get our fingers around to feel the screw, but we then needed them to bend sideways to actually secure it. It just didn't work. It was sooo frustrating. We knew exactly what needed to be done. We knew "how" to do it. We just were not able to. We didn't have the capability to do the thing.
We were powerless to secure the fan.
That is one of the most frustrating things for me is to know what and even how to fix a problem and simply not be able to. No matter how simple it is to pick something up, if you can't reach the shelf it just doesn't matter. Now some things, like the fan (we took the case apart and were able to secure the fan), or not being able to reach the shelf, do have potential solutions. However, some things in life just don't.
Your mom gets cancer and you want to just reach in and pull the cancer out. Your kid has food allergies and you just want to tell their body to stop being stupid. Your bank account runs dry before your calendar does and you sit their staring at your bank statement willing the number to not be $0.22.
Knowing the exact answer and not being able to deliver. at. all.
These are precious times. They are times where you, and your abilities are completely stripped out of a situation and it is easy to turn to G-d. In fact I suspect that is a lot of the reason why He allows us to get there. Take advantage of them. Embrace the simplicity and the clarity of the moment.
The reality is that we are almost always in that position, we just don't always see it.
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