Still Waiting For The Green Light

Lately, I have felt as if I were forced to wait indefinitely in a grown-up game of "Red Light - Green Light". The light seems to perpetually be on red, and I am waiting for someone to call out "Green Light!"

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, explaining a teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, clearly described this state of being in an article entitled "Prison Juice":

The worst prison is when G-d locks you up. He doesn't need guards or cells or stone walls. He simply decides that, at this point in life, although you have talent, you will not find a way to express it. Although you have wisdom, there is nobody who will listen. Although you have a soul, there is nowhere for it to shine.

And you scream, "Is this why you sent a soul into this world? For such futility?"

That is when He gets the tastiest essence of your juice squeezed out from you.

While Rabbi Freeman's thoughts are incredibly insightful, I am still left with more questions than answers. I am still at the red light, waiting. I am still at the red light crying out the words from the morning blessings, "Blessed are You, Hashem, our G-d, King of the Universe, Who releases the bound."

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This posting continues a thread left off here and here.