I GOT MY EYE ON YOU
issue 10 : updated  27 Sivan 5766 (June 22nd, 2006)

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Many of us this month will have the pleasure of attending school graduations, from Siddur Parties to Law School Commencements. At all of these wonderful occasions, the experiences that we as parents go through are the same; i.e., you enter the room, sit down and then that magical moment occurs. Your eyes lock on your child even though there may be a hundred other students in the room. And you may be rest assured that your child knows that your loving eyes are resting upon him or her.

My brother’s Rebbe, Rabbi Reisman of New York, uses this analogy to explain that we should experience this feeling every single moment of every single day. We are that child and Hashem is our parent. We must always understand that Hashem’s loving eyes are resting upon each one of us and that we as individuals matter.

We might not matter to people who live across the country or on the other side of the world, but everything that we do and say matters to Hashem. Hashem notices when we come to daven 5 minutes early instead of arriving 20 minutes late. Hashem notices when we pick up litter that someone else has randomly discarded and place it in the trash or recycling bin.

May this graduation season inspire each and every one of us to feel Hashem’s warm eyes being lit up by our successes.

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Elie