The Freedom to Choose Your Response
A lot of people think Bitachon means becoming unbothered.
Nothing affects you.
Nothing shakes you.
There is a level of Bitachon where a person so deeply recognizes that everything comes from Hashem’s goodness that nothing disturbs him at all.
Most of us are still growing toward that place.
So what does growth look like?
When something hits you, frustration, disappointment, fear, it does not mean you lack faith.
It means you are still human.
The work is not to deny what you feel.
The work is to train yourself to remember Hashem in real time.
In the moment of the trigger.
In the moment of the sting.
In the moment when your instinct wants to react.
Bitachon means practicing remembrance.
This too is from Hashem.
This did not slip past Him.
There is no moment in my life that is not being directed for my ultimate good.
At first, the emotion still rises.
The frustration still lands.
But now there is awareness.
There is a pause.
And in that pause, there is choice.
Choice to remember Who sent this.
Choice to respond with trust.
Choice to lean into emunah instead of being owned by instinct.
You are safe in Hashem’s hands, even when you do not yet understand what He is doing.
And over time, something begins to shift.
The more you train yourself to remember Him in the moment, the less you are shaken.
Not because life becomes easier.
Because remembrance becomes your reflex.
The waves may still appear.
But they no longer feel threatening.
That is Bitachon taking root.
Small shifts.
Repeated daily.
Until trust becomes your nature.
