“You Can't Always Get What You Want”

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You can't always get what you want /
You can't always get what you want /
No, you can't always get what you want /
But if you try sometimes /
You just might find /
You get what you need.
   
— Lyrics:  Mick Jagger / Keith Richards 
Copyright © 1968 

By the grace of G-d 
Essay copyright © 2013-5 by Nathaniel Segal 

“You can't always get what you want” —

In fact, you hardly ever get what you want.  However, it is accurate to say that by trying we do find that we have what we need – at least to get by.

We can also find reasons to be thankful for what we have.

So why is it that we hardly ever get what we want?

Actually, it depends on what we want.  Our eyes are "bigger than our stomachs."

G-d helps how He wants . . . but He is good.