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So to understand my question completely, it will be helpful to watch this video.
The video includes a clip from Steve Harvey that has been bothering me. Because honestly, I don't find any of it to be true in my life.
He says for example, that G-d will carry you through anything. As proof he says "you're here".
Is that what it means to carry you through? So your entirely life can be utterly destroyed, but hey you are alive.... so G-d carried you through. Is that how you define carrying you through?
If you allowed your kids to run off onto the highway, and they got hit by bus, and smashed by a truck, but hey they lived.... is that carrying them through?
And he says all this in the context of saying that you need step out, and trust G-d. To find your gift, and go be successful in life.
So that's made up, but how about we make it real.
Years ago, after a decade of struggling, someone convinced me to try out Truck driving. I made the 'jump' according to Harvey. I spend a month of absolute misery learning to drive a truck. I worked hard, and did the best I knew how. After 2 months, I fell asleep on the road, of a semi doing 65 on the highway. I terrified myself, and those around me.
I ended up leaving, and then found that I was bankrupt. The cost of living on the road, isnt' cheap. On top of that, I owed $4,000 for the training. On top of that I ended up losing the CDL, that the $4,000 was spent on.
On top of that, I had bills I couldn't pay, no money to even eat on, and debt collectors threatening to sue me, and no job prospects.
I regret even now, not ending my life then. But here I am, now 10 years later, still working a job I absolutely hate. Just go to work, go home, and go to bed, so I can get up and do the misery all over again.
Is this "carrying you through"? I guess I define 'carrying you through' differently.
And maybe my version is wrong.
But I've made this "jump" a dozens times. There is no 'gift' that opens up. There is no 'soaring in the sky'. There is no 'carrying me through it'. I just fall, and splat on the ground, and then cry bitterly while picking up the bits.
So you tell me... is this true for you? Is it? Is Harvey right? And please explain how after 42 years, it never once has worked out for me?
The video includes a clip from Steve Harvey that has been bothering me. Because honestly, I don't find any of it to be true in my life.
He says for example, that G-d will carry you through anything. As proof he says "you're here".
Is that what it means to carry you through? So your entirely life can be utterly destroyed, but hey you are alive.... so G-d carried you through. Is that how you define carrying you through?
If you allowed your kids to run off onto the highway, and they got hit by bus, and smashed by a truck, but hey they lived.... is that carrying them through?
And he says all this in the context of saying that you need step out, and trust G-d. To find your gift, and go be successful in life.
So that's made up, but how about we make it real.
Years ago, after a decade of struggling, someone convinced me to try out Truck driving. I made the 'jump' according to Harvey. I spend a month of absolute misery learning to drive a truck. I worked hard, and did the best I knew how. After 2 months, I fell asleep on the road, of a semi doing 65 on the highway. I terrified myself, and those around me.
I ended up leaving, and then found that I was bankrupt. The cost of living on the road, isnt' cheap. On top of that, I owed $4,000 for the training. On top of that I ended up losing the CDL, that the $4,000 was spent on.
On top of that, I had bills I couldn't pay, no money to even eat on, and debt collectors threatening to sue me, and no job prospects.
I regret even now, not ending my life then. But here I am, now 10 years later, still working a job I absolutely hate. Just go to work, go home, and go to bed, so I can get up and do the misery all over again.
Is this "carrying you through"? I guess I define 'carrying you through' differently.
And maybe my version is wrong.
But I've made this "jump" a dozens times. There is no 'gift' that opens up. There is no 'soaring in the sky'. There is no 'carrying me through it'. I just fall, and splat on the ground, and then cry bitterly while picking up the bits.
So you tell me... is this true for you? Is it? Is Harvey right? And please explain how after 42 years, it never once has worked out for me?