Thought for the week. . .

Based on a supervisor's recommendation, I recently picked up a children's book for foster children, entitled Maybe Days. The book talks about all the "maybe days" that foster kids encounter - the  days that kids don't know if they will be with mom or dad, the days they don't know if they will be with their foster parents or picked up by their social worker. It's a very sweet and touching book that embraces of the concept of "maybe days" and encourages the child to be him or her self regardless.
Reading this book gave rise to many thoughts about my own life. The thought of Maybe Days is a deeply salient concept at this stage of the game. As a single 23-year-old girl, there is an element of my life that is utterly in limbo. Even if I am happily settled, even while i am busy with school and happy with my social life, there's an element of my existence that remains in uncertain. My future lies in "maybe days" - the unknowns of the future. I don't think I need to expound more - those of you in the same situation know exactly what I mean and may the rest of you be zoche never to know.
This experience is reminiscent of a vort said on Parshas Chayei Sara (source unknown - any info appreciatd). "Vayihi shinai chanyei sara". "Shnei" (two) and not "Shanim" (years) - hinting to the fact that the two parts of Sara Imeinu's lif, both the painful days before she had Yitzchak and the rewarding days afterward, were both chayei Sara - they were equal in her eyes.
May we all be zoche to develop an inner calm and connection with Hakadosh Baruch Hu in our Maybe Days that may remain with us in equal strength in the future more settled days that bezras Hashem will arrive.