Our everyday life is full or repetitions, habits, familiar issues that fill our days and nights many times. And we would all like to abolish some of these habits, or at least to apply them rarely and on a case-by-case basis.

This daily routine and these habits often lead to stagnation, pessimism, apathy, fall and not resurrection and revitalization, even in our bodies, much more in our inner world. Long-term stagnation leads to a change in our nature and in our character, to the extent that we are driving ourselves doubtfully into our future.

And we all know that the only solution in this case is a sudden incident that will take us out of stagnation, an event that will renew our interests, even our everyday life. A renewal of interests, a course of new quests and challenges, always brings new winds into our lives and makes us active, efficient, productive and ultimately makes us new people, with new ideas and new habits that lead us safely into a better future. That is precisely the role of God. To renew our interests and lead us, from our routine to the discovery of a new world; the world of faith, that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and it benefits both today and the future.

Quite often we find ourselves in dead ends. Practical dead ends in our work, psychological dead ends in our environment, economical dead ends and so on.

The more the dead ends, the more difficult our lives become every day. And these dead ends, this work without results, is covered and removed by a revitalization of our minds, a new wind that helps us get away from the past and look for a new future.

It’s a practical revitalization and not a theoretical one. Revitalization in our ideas, replenishment of our energy, refreshment and renewal of our interests, our relationships, our goals and our motivations. Nature itself teaches that everything needs to be renewed. From the cells of our body that are renewed daily as we live to the trees and animals, everything is renewed, everything changes every day, even when we cannot observe the change.

Renewal is synonymous with life, movement, search and new things. A life of faith invites us to this renewal. Not to repetition, but to renewal. Not to habit, but to inventiveness and innovation.  Non-renewal means dead ends, it means death. And this must be avoided with all our might, no matter the sacrifices.

Wisdom says that the higher you want to ascend, the deeper you must dig in order to build your building, and support your work.

We know this from our everyday life, as we see tall buildings that have been built in proportion to their depth. Only then can the building have guarantees that it will withstand the storms and earthquakes; when it is grounded in proportion to its height and is well built on solid foundations.

This practical aspect of life reflects the deeper truth, which says that the better the foundation of our faith is, the better it is built on solid foundations, then the safer it will be in storms and earthquakes. And because storms and earthquakes usually exist in our lives, we must be sufficiently provident in order for our building to get through every difficulty.