He said he works at a company. Recently, some things happened at the company that were, frankly, unfair to him. He wasn't sure whether he should fight or let it go. He said, “I decided to let it go. Now my income is impacted. Our relationships are impacted.” He says, “And I'm working. I happen to be working to try to sell a company.” We're going to give it a name: WeWork. Is that a company? I'll make it up: WeWork. So he's trying to work with this company, WeWork, and he's talking back and forth to them. And in the company, there's a man named Robert.
He says that, in the process, his son goes to a show, a business show in Chicago. His son calls him up and says, “You know, a lot of the people you're working with are at this show. There's even a company called WeDo.” So the father thought, “WeDo, WeWork, same company.” He says, “Go to the company and find out if Robert is there.” So the son goes to the booth of this company. They're closing up; the show is pretty much over. The son asks, “Robert?” They say, “There's no Robert.” He says, “There's a Robert.” They say, “No.” He says, “My father said there's a Robert.” They say, “There's no Robert.” And then they say, “Listen, the person you might need is a woman named Chrissy. Maybe she could help you.”
The boy goes to his father and says, “Dad, there's no Robert. But there's a Chrissy in the company. Maybe you could reach out.” So the next day, the father sends an email to Chrissy. Chrissy calls. Chrissy emails him back and says, “Are you from this and this company?” He says, “Yeah, I am.” She says, “Wow, I want to talk to you.” They get on the phone and start talking. They have an hour-long conversation, and she's about to make a huge order. He says, “This is a huge order from a company. It's the wrong company. I'm working with WeWork. I all of a sudden got a crazy order from WeDo. Again, these are not the real names. But WeDo? What? Why? Because I was a fool and thought they were the same company. I didn't hear what my son said. I just heard the word ‘we,’ and then I forgot what he said after that. And I'm looking for Robert. I got Chrissy, and I got this big order. This big order could completely replace what I lost. I'm going to be in unbelievable shape because of this door that Hashem opened, which he never could have seen with his regular eyes in his life.”
There are times in your life when you pray to Hashem and you know what you want. And then there are times in your life when you know not just what you want, but even how you want to get there. But there are a lot of times in your life when you pray to Hashem and you're firmly stuck, and you give up. No, “give up” doesn't mean, like some people thought, that you just go to bed and say, “Hashem, I'm going to even stop praying.” That's not what it means. Give up means that you have more conviction and more power than you ever did before, because until now you thought it was in your weak little hands. And now you know your weak little hands are incapable.
So now you say, “Hashem, I am throwing it up to the most powerful power in the world: You, Hashem. As long as I am stuck, You're going to see me. You're going to know, and I'm going to know, that this is because You love me. This is because You want to make greatness out of me. And this is not because You want the next shoe to drop, but because You want me to go to the highest heights. I know that's why I'm here. I know I have that capability. And I know You're testing me to be the ultimate nes, to be the ultimate sign of what a person can be and how a person can achieve.”
“I know why You put me here, but you know what I'm going to do? I am going to keep going. I'm going to keep going by giving up. I'm going to keep going by making sure You see me and by making sure You hear me. And the words You're going to hear are not, ‘Hashem, I want to marry that girl. Hashem, I want that job. Hashem, I want that house. Hashem, I want that doctor to do a good job in the surgery,’ because I don't have those options right now. Instead, I'm going to say, ‘Hashem, I give up to You until You open the door. And when You do, I will run right through it. But until then, I'm in Your hands.’”