Accept with Love 

If a person had a very big problem to deal with and he was told that if he would accept what Hashem had given him with love, immediately that problem would disappear, he would have a very easy time accepting that problem. He would recognize the great benefit he is going to receive by responding with joy and it wouldn't even be a test for him. I read a story about a woman who worked to support her family, enabling her husband to learn Torah day and night. On one occasion, she had a month's worth of earnings in cash and put it in an envelope and asked her husband to deposit it in their bank account on the way to his kollel. That day there was a major rainstorm and on the way there the man slipped and fell. He quickly got up and continued on. When he finally arrived at the bank, he reached into his pocket to pull out the envelope, but to his dismay it wasn't there. His heart dropped. An entire month's worth of his wife's earnings and he had just lost it. He ran back to the place that he slipped to search for the envelope, but it was nowhere to be found. He was so broken over what had taken place and feared telling his wife about it. He knew his wife was an eshet chayil and would for sure accept it with emunah, but he still dreaded breaking that news to her. He worked up the courage to call her and told her what happened. She told him, "Don't worry, it could happen to anyone." She encouraged him to go learn with peace of mind and everything would be okay. After she hung up the phone, she knew her husband was going to have a rough day, thinking about what he did. She knew he was going to come home ashamed later that evening. She decided she was going to remove any distress from her heart and instead think about how to make him not feel bad. She planned a very fancy dinner that night with their nicest dishes and she was going to make every effort for them to accept what happened with joy. Her husband came home that night looking very ashamed, but he immediately saw the festive atmosphere and his expression quickly changed. They sat and ate together, giving each other chizuk in emunah and they accepted that this is what Hashem wanted for them and they did it with love. At the end of that meal, there was a knock at the door. It was a man returning the envelope with all the money intact. They were both overjoyed! The wife had gone that day to put up a sign in the place that her husband told her he had slipped. She had her name and number on it and the finder actually knew who they were and brought it straight back to their house. When a certain noted rabbi heard this story, he said, "It was the zechut of them accepting with love that brought them back the money." If we would know that accepting a problem takes away the problem, we would be so excited to accept it with love. Our great Rabbis have told us, when we accept our problems with love, we get something so much greater than that. Having our problem solved is a temporary worldly benefit. The Chofetz Chaim writes, when someone accepts with love what Hashem does to him, יתרומם עבור זה מדריגתו מאד מאד – his spiritual level soars to the greatest heights and לעתיד לבוא יהיה שולחנו שלם מכל טוב – in the Future World he will receive endless reward for it. That is a guarantee. It may also be true that problems in this world go away with the proper reaction, but for sure, one hundred percent, that reaction will earn a person the greatest rewards forever and ever.