To have a consistency in your life, having contact at the same times with the same people, to have people who give you a consistency of care, to be in the same places at the same times on the same days.
To have a life of predictability, to not have an exposure to an upset in life of not having what you need when you need it. To not be hungry without an option to eat, to not be thirsty without an option to drink. To not depend on someone for encouragement in your life's endeavors and then to not receive this flow of consistency that you count on.
To have ten Jews regularly attending Jewish morning worship minyans, to not have a lack of ten so to be able always to have enough members to recite The Kaddish for your deceased loved ones.
To have this unfortunate circumstance of losing a loved one to death, but to have this predictability of being able to pray to G-D for them with the love of the other Jews in your minyan that provide you with care and concern.
To therefore feel the love of the Jewish religion as your wounds are dressed, as you wear a tefillin around your left arm like a bandage and so to be able to go on, to continue living, without those loved ones who were important in your life but who are now deceased.
To see the same trees in your yard, but to see the leaves turning colors from green to gold as the autumn months represent this change to us that there is change in our lives, a topsy turnover to our routines, that green turns colors but becomes gold. That these changes we have in our lives, like the losing of a loved one to death, is like green becoming gold. The loss of our loved ones is hurtful to our emotions and is an upset to our routine, and we all must someday face this as a change in our lives.
But if what we can do is see the changes in our lives as becoming golden leaves, to use harmful experiences as a way to get closer to The Lord, to ask Him to help us, and to have the support of our Jewish landsmen too, so we can get through these changes and come out stronger and happier as a result of the care and concern, the love, we get from our love for The Lord.
To love Him and feel His love returned, as green becomes gold, a change from the greenness of badness turns into the goldenness of goodness.
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