This is something I saw a long time ago, I’m not sure who said it, but it stuck with me. On Rosh Hashana we ask for a sweet year, not just good. Why? Everything Hashem does is good, nut we ask that it also be sweet.
This one is mine, its a little (ok, a lot) crazy. Ya gotta do something while you’re washing dishes.
A dish starts out white. If you put something greasy or saucy on it, it’ll get dirty. To anyone looking at it, its a dirty dish. But the dish is actually white. It never changes to purple or black or any other color, it only has a layer on top that makes the whole thing look dirty. Underneath that layer, the dish is as bright and white as it ever was. Even though a Neshama can look dirty, it never actually is. Its only the surface that is. Underneath it has the same greatness it always had.