Welcome to daily Bitachon as we continue in our trek through Shaar HaBechinah finding God in creation in the Chovot HaLevavot . And as the Chovot HaLevavot tells us, although God's goodness is all encompassing as it says Tov Hashem la'kol , yet most people are blind. The first reason for the blindness is I only see what I don't have, don't appreciate what I do have. The second reason is what we call hergel . It becomes habit and therefore it's mundane.Now Rav Wolbe writes that this concept of habit is extremely important. First of all, it's a gift. We'll call it the gift of automaticity. It's vital for life. You drive a car, if you remember when you first started driving, you're all tight to the wheel and turn it like they taught you in your training and driver's trainer to do it properly. A person, lo aleinu , that has a stroke, they have to teach him how to brush his teeth again. Life will become difficult if everything is heavy. God made it that things become automatic. And we need that for our religion as well. We say, ve'hargileinu be'Toratecha , get me habituated into doing your mitzvot . It's important. But it has a downside, because we stop thinking and we stop appreciating, and habit becomes nature.And as the Chazon Ish once said, the only difference between miracle and nature is nature is a miracle that keeps repeating itself. And the famous example is given that the generation of the desert, they had bread coming from heaven. Those that were born in the desert, that's all they saw. Bread comes from the heaven. They made a bracha , המוציא לחם מן השמים. God that gives us bread from the heavens. When they came into Eretz Yisrael , it was like a shock. I mean you put a seed in the ground, and the ground gives you food? How can the ground, this dirty, muddy ground produce food? Like, what's going on over here? And if we came outside of our doorstep one morning and there was a pile of bread that came from the heaven, we would be in shock like, what's going on over here? Bread from heaven? What's the point over here? Whatever you're used to becomes normal and it's accepted and it's taken for granted. You don't even notice anything. You walk down the street, trees are growing out of the ground. What in the world? How do trees come out of the ground? It's a hard wood and it's coming out of this soft mud. What is going on over here? But we're used to it.And the Chovot HaLevavot brings down one of his favorite, famous mashals of contrasting a child that was raised in a home versus someone that was a captive and redeemed in his 20s. A child that's raised at home, or for that matter, he actually says a child that was picked up from the side of the street and raised by parents, it's the same parents that raise you. And this child was, everything was done for them: fed, clothing, housing, schooling, hobbies, whatever you want. On the other hand, we have a man that was taken captive as age 20 and the Israeli defense force comes in and saves this person. And of course he's indebted to him for life, and he should be. But at the end of the day, without the parents, there'd be no child at all. Of course, these soldiers are our heroes. But the reason why the person that's saved later in his life is much more appreciative is because it came when his mind was developed and he wasn't habituated and conditioned into the goodness. And that's the reason that we are not able to see God, because we're conditioned into his goodness from a young age and everything therefore is accepted and given. And that's why we need to work hard to overcome this challenge.We use the term hergel , as we said, ve'hargileinu be'Toratecha . The root of the word hergel , which is habit, is regel , your feet. Your feet, as we said, walk, it's automatic. Have you anyone ever experienced you move to a new place and you're walking and suddenly you just walk back to your old house, you're not even thinking. Your feet walk without you even thinking. David HaMelech says in Tehillim 119:59 , חשבתי דרכי ואשיבה רגלי אל עדתיך. Even though my might be thinking of doing other things, my feet naturally take me to the Beis Midrash . So that's the, you're not even present. Your feet walk and you're not even there. That's what can happen in our life. We just walk through and we don't even see and appreciate the most basic fundamental gifts that God gives us because we're just on automatic pilot, on our automatic feet. And that's part of our job.