It was Wednesday morning and on went the tie.
I was off to the Capitol in Hartford for an event marking the 30th Yartzeit of the Rebbe in the Senate Chamber.
Until I wasn’t.
Some groups from camp were heading to the waterpark and despite the great ratio of counselors to children and the many head-staff members that were there— we felt one senior director should be there. I was chosen.
Off came the tie and on came the T-shirt. It sounds sort of poetic yet it was anything but poetic. It was reality. It was where I needed to be.
King David the great Psalmist writes, “the steps of man are directed by G-d”. We are where we are because we need to be there. And this too isn’t poetic and neither is it dramatic. It’s reality. A phenomenon we often agitate over.
Sometimes we feel the deep sense of mission where we are, other times we need to seek out the mission of how to maximize the place that although we haven’t sought it out — is where we find ourselves.
Ironically, this was one of the central messages of the Rebbe. Life is mission based. We live it, we love it, we uplift it and at the end of the day —the underlying purpose of making this world a better place—is what it’s all about.
Whether the tie or the T-shirt we are always in the right place at the right time the rest is mere dress!