People wait for salvation in life from various problems and crises. We think of this salvation as something that is going to HAPPEN that will change everything for the better.
The Torah describes a different type of salvation. Yosef's brothers were in a state of terrible distress. Then Yosef reveals reveals himself - "אני יוסף". Distress over! This is our brother and he is NOT mad at us. So essentially what happened is that they just changed their narrative of the situation. Until now their narrative was that this is an evil man who is driving them crazy and wants to take their brother away. Now they understand that this was their Tzadik of a brother ALL ALONG.
In life, we can achieve salvation just by changing our narrative!! Instead of looking at various situations with a negative perspective, we can change it to a positive one and everything is INSTANTANEOUSLY TRANSFORMED!!! WOW-EEEE. Quite empowering, I might say.
For example, imagine every problem as a gift given by Hashem in order to make you great. Who doesn't want to be great??!
When the brothers told Yaakov what had happened it says "ותחי רוח יעקב אביהם" - They brought to life the spirit of their father Yaakov. Yaakov had this potential "life" [vitality and true joy] in potential all along. It was just up to the brothers to bring it to fruition. [מי השילוח]
The Belzer Rebbe, "Reb Aharon Kdosh Hashem", had a number of children who died in infancy. Another couple of children were born deaf. He lost his very beloved son in the Holocaust. His life was filled with incredible trials and tribulations. Yet, he always insisted that nothing bad ever happened to him. When he was sitting shiva for his brother Rav Mordechai of Belguray [the father of the present Rebbe Shlita], the Beis Yisrael of Ger came to console him. When he left he said the customary line "you should know no more pain". The Blezer Rebbe said "Chas Vi-shoolem chas vi-shoolem, I have never known pain". Then he had the Beis Yisrael wash his hands 3 times and say that the Belzer Rebbe never had pain.
Another time someone came to complain about all he had lost in the Holocaust and told the Rebbe that he would understand because he also suffered a lot of terrible losses in the Holocaust. The Rebbe insisted that he never had anything bad befall him.
