Question

Have a good week, Rabbi,
Our interpretation of the events we experience during the day is what determines how we feel and how we react. If, in the year 2000 at the height of the Intifada, I saw a man with a long beard getting onto a bus, I would immediately interpret him as a terrorist about to blow up the bus; naturally I would be afraid and would probably get off the bus quickly. Then suddenly someone shouts to him from the back, “David, how are you? What a beard you grew on your trip to India!” and then I calm down.
The belief that livelihood comes from Heaven, that everything is under precise Divine providence, that suffering has meaning—these give a person who believes in them emotional calm and peace of mind, because if that is my interpretation of my situation, those feelings must arise in me.
Ever since I got to know the Rabbi, and the trilogy, I have been convinced by your systematic outlook. But the believer’s “Acamol,” which finds expression in ways of thinking such as Divine providence and livelihood from Heaven, I no longer live by those ideas. And when I did live by them, I was calmer and more at peace. More than that: I like listening to lectures, and of course the classes given by the rabbis in our study hall are everything I used to think before I came to know your approach, and I feel “quite a bit” like I don’t belong.
Despite all that, are there still tools, intellectual frameworks, that can help a person who believes in the reality of the Creator and the truth of the Torah? Or perhaps my starting point—as far as interpreting events, as I wrote above—as a religious person, and that of my friend who does not observe Torah and commandments, is the same point?
Respectfully