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Nishmas / Charlene Aminoff

Nishmat Soldiers! It’s Charlene Aminoff here again with a little reminder to everybody that is part of this round of Nishmat Kol Chai. There is something so special about asking Hashem for something after we have expressed our gratitude to Hashem. It almost makes it feel like we are first showing our father in Heaven just how grateful we are for our blessings. Both the obvious ones and the ones in disguise. After we’ve shown Hashem that we recognize that everything we have is from you. Everything we have is from Hashem and everything we don’t have yet is also from Hashem. When we put ourselves in a mind-frame in recognizing that everything is From Hashem we’re automatically happy! What do we do when we’re happy? We thank Hashem! When we thank Hashem for everything that we have, and everything that we lack, that is when we can come through with our requests. We can say “Hashem, I have no questions about how you run the world, I’m just so grateful that I’m in it.” We’re not looking at our cup as half-full or half-empty. We’re thankful that we have a cup. When we say “Hashem everything I have and everything I lack is all from you, Ein Od Milvado.” I’m grateful for everything! “Now Hashem, if you can deem me worthy of receiving an amazing shidduch, a pregnancy, a beautiful baby, parnassah, shalom bayit.” That's the ultimate way to show Hashem we got the memo. Hashem runs the world, we’re just puppets living in it. When we thank Hashem for everything we have and what we don’t have yet that is when Hashem says “Okay I’m clearing the path for a lot of shefa headed your way”. Remember that when you say this tefillah first say Ein Od Milvado three times. This is Rebbetzin Kanievsky’s advice for all of us. That is showing we’re aware everything we have and don’t have is from you and everything we need and want will come only from You. Hatzlacha Rabbah, keep going today until day 40, we’ll see you at the finish line.