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Resolve This: It's a Faith Thing
...did I get from here to there, other than through the steady drilling of hot water?
I have absolutely no idea. Nor do I have the slightest clue as to how I will begin to identify which thought error I must correct, let alone the behavioral change that will follow.
This is where faith comes in. And here comes the gift that comes with it.
"Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is." Romans 12:2.
Now, as a believing Christian, I have no... (more)
Tags: faith, new years resolutions
The Faith
... taunt me.
Apocalyptical warnings make e shudder
In the bottomless pit of dreary dark uncertainties
I am falling and yelling to escape
From the ashes, I wish to rise
Hands offering to lift me up
Steering restlessness into the calm corollary
I know now, that I have the supporting threads
I have with me now the hands, which hold me
Yes, the time which took away, has now given me back
I have with me the gains of my lost time
I know now, that I have the reason to smile
I have with me the faith from dusk to dawn
(more)Rebirth of Born Again - The death and life of faith
Spiritual. More specifically, christian. Even more precise, Born Again Christian. These were my labels, my cult, my passion. It sounds good, it sounds right, but the reality was not so cut and dry. It wasn't right, because I wasn't. I had to lose my faith, get put through a hell on earth called divorce, burn in the fires of addiction, be put on the cross of heartache and betrayal. I had to lose everything to find the real me. Not the me created by the fan club of a very generic “God”, but the me that is reality. Only as I went through those fires did the impurities of my fake belief come to... (more)
Tags: religion, faith, church, addiction, pride, fire, cross, fan, fuck, janitor, lose everything, rubber meets the road
Defender of the Faith
... whose horizons are purely (I was tempted to write bleakly) material. What I loath is the atheist proselytisers, those who would discard one set of absolutes only to promote another, bringing to the debate the worst forms of intellectual intolerance. God is dead; Richard Dawkins is alive. The new faith is totalitarian secularism, worse in ever way than the old faith of ritual and transcendence.
In one previous Papal Bull Dawkins said that the real abuse by Roman Catholic priests may not be the ‘groping of child bodies’ but the ‘subversion of child minds.’ Saint Richard would... (more)
Tags: christianity, atheism, church of england, secularism
Leap of Faith.
People don’t like steps.
They like motions, big ones.
They like to take these leaps of faith and remember that their life, the one they all a sudden once had, even if it were just a moment ago, was a bittersweet one, full of nostalgic remorse.
I look back on so many lives, so many phases of mine, it’s hard to remember which one was the real-est. When do we ever pause in our moments and say, now, everything I feel is me, and everything that I have surrounded myself with is the result of that.
I suppose that’s the continuous struggle with life, isn’t it?
That’s... (more)
Tags: love, memories, nostalgia, perspective, looking back, leap of faith
Faith and the First Scientists
...and so was the Church's hegemony of knowledge. The workings of the universe became the realm of science.
While the new scientific way of thinking was partially responsible for the decline in the power of the Church, the resultant image of the world neither threatened the fundamentals of faith, nor replaced the need for a creator. For many scientists, revealing the nature of the world was the way to understanding the creation and the glory of God. Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, were all devout believers who saw their scientific work as a religious undertaking. For example,... (more)
Walking in Faith
...believe this right now. My girlfriend ended our 2 year relationship and moved out 5 days ago. Hard to make sense of anything right now…
--Searching for Answers
Dear Searching for Answers,
It unfortunately never does in the moment. This is one of those circumstances where faith, belief, (whatever you want to call it) has to come in and be stronger than anything else. This is one of those times where you have to dig deep and do the internal work. But first off, don’t allow anyone to tell you that “you’re better off for it” or “get over it” or “you were... (more)
Tags: love, relationships, oprah, faith, shari alyse, sharing with shari, universe, breakups
Have Faith In God
Mark 11:22-26
(NIV)
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[a] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
Jesus, our example for prayer, prayed . "Every... (more)
Leap of Faith
...and emotional energy, leaving me with no strength to push through the day at hand. Questioning my beliefs, my existence, my experience, is necessary, I must however, lay down my pursuits and find a place of peace to exist should my questions go unanswered. What follows is an eventual leap of faith. Eventually I take that leap to have any sense of well-being in my life. At that point, I have to understand that I don’t understand, admit my finite power of mind, lay down my notepad, my calculator, my psychoanalysis, and find the peace that will guide me thought the dark valley of the... (more)
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Walking In Faith: Wolves In Sheeps Clothing
..." In March of 2006 Mr Bushy and his (Nazi) party penned the Church as a Governmental Agency. Theseparation of church and stateare officially gone with the stroke ofhis pen. Our nation’s trusted leader signedan Executive Order, which tied the Department of Homeland Security to our “faith-based” churches. All non-profit churches now serve as the Federal Government’s primary spying agency. Besides saving souls, they receive funds to spy on people like you and me and send back reports to the Government. In the event of a national emergency,like a completeeconomic... (more)
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