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For Good…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Quite often, when someone grows up to be a superstar, people will say, \u201cThe signs were there.\u201d Even when he was little, he would\u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter what they excel in, be it Torah, music, math, chesed, or something else, it often starts young, and people, in retrospect, say that the signs were there from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say everything is a sign. For example, there was the fellow who came to his Rabbi saying that his three-year-old son would put a towel on his shoulders, wrap a belt around his arm, and stand at the wall swaying as if in prayer. \u201cMy son seems so special,\u201d said the man. \u201cI\u2019m wondering if I should buy him a pair of Tefillin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo,\u201d said the Rabbi. \u201cWhat you should do is try to daven in shul once in a while!\u201d \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…or for Bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then there are those people who do terrible things and, looking back, people recall how they were sneaky or cruel as children, and they say, \u201cThe signs were there.\u201d The common theme is that the people didn\u2019t recognize the signs for what they were in time to take action. Sure, some parents do take note of things, and they act upon them, but there are many cases where we simply miss the signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They Didn’t See Her<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not entirely our faults. You see, sometimes you can see something so often that you take it for granted and almost don\u2019t see it anymore. Remember that apocryphal high school final that consisted of one question: \u201cWhat is the name of the woman who cleans the school?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teacher wanted to teach the girls that all the knowledge in the world won\u2019t help you if you don\u2019t consider others and are self-absorbed. The girls who just went about their days not taking notice of the woman who cleaned up after them failed to learn a valuable lesson because they simply didn\u2019t \u201csee\u201d her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Love Dad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, there\u2019s a sign I\u2019ve been ignoring. I take that back; I haven\u2019t been ignoring it. I simply haven\u2019t seen it. The sign is an actual, physical one, and it hangs over my bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a white piece of printer paper, standard 8\u00bd x 11, on which are pasted a number of small smiley face stickers. The stickers are arranged in a pattern to spell out the words, \u201cI love Dad.\u201d My daughter made it for me years ago for Father\u2019s Day, and it\u2019s hung there ever since. I can enter and exit my bed multiple times a day, especially on Shabbos, and, I\u2019m sorry to admit, simply miss it. Not because it\u2019s high and out of sight, but because I\u2019m so used to it being there that it no longer makes an impression on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 12 Years it Went Unnoticed!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recently I took note of it, and of the fact that I haven\u2019t taken note of it in so long. It bothered me because it\u2019s such a meaningful thing and I\u2019ve simply overlooked it. I sent my now twenty-one-year-old daughter a picture of it and asked when she made it. \u201cProbably when I was nine,\u201d she replied. \u201cOr maybe eight, based on the sticker book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shocked. For over a dozen years, thousands of times, I\u2019ve gotten into that bed and missed the fact that my daughter was telling me she loved me; that she was proud to be my child. How could I have missed it?! Truthfully, it was just because I was so used to it that I didn\u2019t consciously appreciate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It made me realize that we have so many signs in our lives which we take for granted and don\u2019t stop to think about. The people in our lives like our parents, spouses, children and friends, are like walking placards announcing their feelings for us. Most of the time we don\u2019t stop and read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs from Hashem – They Were There All Along<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When we get up in the morning and say the Modeh Ani<\/a> prayer, we\u2019ve gotten a sign from Hashem (God) He thinks we\u2019re worthy of another day of life. \u201cRabba Emunasecha\u201d refers to the great faith Hashem has in each of us that even if we didn\u2019t live perfectly yesterday, He knows that today we will knock it out of the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The health, parnassah<\/em> (livelihood), or family we have are signs that He loves us and is glad to be our father; that He is proud of us. But we so easily miss the signs because they\u2019re always there. At least, until we wake up one day and take proper notice of them. Then we\u2019ll start to see the signs more clearly and more regularly. We\u2019ll start to find joy and comfort in their messages, and grow the love we have for the posters of those signs. It would certainly be a shame if a lifetime from now we were to acknowledge, \u201cThe signs were there all along, and I didn\u2019t even notice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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