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so true.
Love
:) truly it does. And truly it can’t be found and lost just crossing a street.
Thank you Paulo.
Dear Paulo,
YES !!!
“The faith is like a night. We cannot see it, but we can feel it, sense it with our heart.”
The more we feel it the more alive our heart is.
The more alive our heart is the closer we are to the Light, to God.
love
Agnieszka
P.S.
I would love to watch it, but I don’t have high speed internet, yet. Mine is too slow, unfortunately.
:-(
I think the faith is always there,we just disconnect from it sometimes …we have to put ourselves in Gods hands always.
This week was a test on my faith…and i have to say that i got confused because of my thoughts not having the rhytm of my heart…but the beat given by people who were trying to change my direction…
In silence faith returned this morning when i woke up in the flowing river.
Yes, observe in silence instead of running without direction…
Breath…
Thank you Paulo!
Love
Hildegarde
It sounds so easy and selfevident - simply faithful - how you say this: Just wait and faith will return. I think my struggle for faith and my “wrestling with God” are harder.
For me, faith has to do with knowing. When I have faith I have faith because I know because of an experience I have had. It´s knowing on a deep inner level which has to do with my spirituality. That´s deep inner knowledge. At times I´m full of it.
At times my feelings or my thoughts or some part of my physical life take over my faith and I´m not in contact with it. For me faith has to do with a truth about our deepest nature which is much deeper than our bodies or feelings or thoughts. It has to do with how we experience life, how we live, from which place in ourselves, who we truly experience ourselves to be. We live in a physical world with bodies, feelings, thoughts - and is this all that we really believe we are? For me faith is naturally born out of experiences of the spiritual life-force that is the innermost nature of all.
It is “the left arm of God” that causes my crises of faith. For me it is a problem I found no solution. If God is only good, he is not almighty and there must be something stronger than Him. If he is as well evil as good you have to accept he is also cruel and unfair.
I would be interested to discuss that problem in the blog!
I would like to quote one of my favorites here…
“Faith is the force of life”
- Tolstoy.
Dear Monika,
God IS almighty.
He knows good and evil, He has the power over good and evil, but He …because He is Only Good, always chooses good.
He also gave US free will to choose between good and evil. That’s why we shouldn’t blame Him BUT ourselves for what’s bad in our lives.
He always wants what good for us, but….
the problem is that people not always see it at first and act differently.
If we could only see…..
We should remember that it’s a long process, not always visible in the beggining.
We should trust in Him, so He can guides us through the whole process, so He can guides us to the Light.
For HE ALWAYS IS.
“I’m the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life”
love
Agnieszka
Dear Monika,
As I see it, God or whatever we experience as being what we call God is not really a discussion issue because our spiritual level and whatever we might call God is beyond our mental level. We can´t think or reason God, it is not up for discussion - but up for experience. It´s up for being in us.
I´m not in a position on a blog to say anything about what might or might not solve the problem you mention. But I can say what works in my own life so far. What I´ve learned is that when we are conscious, we are also naturally loving and what we can term as good. And when we are uncounscious, we can also be not caring in whatever degree and that can be evem very hurtfull and what we can also turn evil. as I see it it comes down to if our motives are based on love or fear because we act accordingly. I see God as a potential or possible level of consciousness inside ourselves, an inner authority deep inside our own integrity. And I believe in asking myself when something shows up in my life - what does this have to do with me? And what can I learn from this if I´m able to look at it thru the eyes of love? I believe that if I get a problem, I also have the solution to that problem deep inside my own being, since life is challenging me to grow and wants me to be who I can really be.I trust that there is a spiritual solution to any problem. What I´ve experienced is that if I dare to meet whatever it is with even the tinest bit of my spirituality or loving awareness, the healing has already started and the solution will eventuality become clear at some point.
I have no idea if you can use any of this, but I wanted to respond to you.
Dear Monika,
Have you seen - “Passion of the Christ” or
“The five people you meet in heaven” with John Voight?
- explains a lot.
Everything happens for a reason.
love
Agnieszka
Dear agnieszka,
I have read the book “The five people you meet in heaven”. I would really like to believe that “everything happens for a reason”. There are surely things that happen for a reason - this is an expirience I have made in my own life.
But when I think for example of the Tsunami - and this is only one example - I cannot believe that everything (!) happens for a (good) reason! Hundreds of people had no choise and no free will at all.
Or if you consider problems as a challenge, as Sibila does - which I think is doubtless true - what will God teach us through such katastrophies?
The argument of Sibila that God is not really a discussion issue because he is beyont our mental level does not satisfy me at all!
Dear Monika,
It’s hard to explain such things you’ve mentioned, at least we as a human beings cannot understand it somehow, but if you look at that as the part of the evolution of the earth, part of the evolution of men, you can see that it affects our emotions, our thinking, our understanding of life, how this life is so precious, so fragile.
It shows that people should enjoy every little moment given to us, because it might be our last.
Today the priest at church said: that we are no longer homo sapiens, but homo “spectators”, we so attached to TV, computers, news, etc… and what is shown on the news…catastropies, tragic,”spectacular” moments.
That’s the message for us.
We should be thankful for every moment of our life, try to be better human beings for everyone, and everywhere, because we never know…
As for catastrophies, they happened before many times, even before any of us were born, that’s the part of evolution of our planet, evolution of our universe.
Why blame God for that?
Why blame God for killings innocent people? It’s the people who made it happen, don’t you think?
How about “Passion of the Christ”?
Watching it have you had any emotions? I bet you did?
And why? Because He died, so terribly, for who?
For US.
Why? Because of those horrible people who kill others, who make these attrophies happen. For all of us, who sin.
Could you say God was unfair, cruel, for His own son?
NO, it was for a reason.
lots of love
Agnieszka
Dear Monika,
I believe there are as many ways for us to learn in life as there are people - and life teaches us according to each one of us. As horrific as catastrophies as the Tsunami can be, when meeting pain and chaos, however we respond is important. And a lot of people also experience courage, endurance, mercifullness, wake-up calls, kindness, heroism, a tremendous life force and will to live in facing that kind of situations. Personally I think the Tsuanmi happend because of global imbalance in nature which is caused by humans - not God. But at the same time being part of it changed a lot of people´s lives, also because of goodness that came forth in themselves or in others.
I hope that you find what you need.
Sibila
it was getting on my nerves…
i was trying to distract myself…
n then i found it…
it gets so hard…
but i’m on my way…
i don’t want to stop…
i don’t want to give up…
it’s hard…
but that’s how it is…
but there are times….
i feel so angry…
sometimes, i just want to hurt him…
it pulls me back.
Dear Agnieska,
first of all I want to thank you for your interest in this discussion and for answering me once again.
I think we may not understand God with any human measures. For me He is the wise conception of the universe, which also includes natural katastrophies.
If you see it this way you are right - they are part of the evolution of our planet and have their own sense in the development of the earth (I have to mention I am a geographer and biologist), that leads in the end to us.
What makes me thinking is the imagination that God loves every human being on the earth and will his best - the imagination He is like a father giving us His shelter. In this point I will continue wrestling -which is not bad in the end, because it is a motivation to continue the search.
If you one day say “I’m sure in my believe” or the same would be “I don’t believe nothing at all anymore” you will have reached a point of stagnation in your development.
And concerning Jesus I know I am in good company - he asked on the cross: “Father, why have you forsaken me?” Think I will ask this question still sometimes more often, but I will not give up hope for rescue.
Lots of love
Monika
Dear Monika,
You’re welcome, and one more thing,
if you really believe then you don’t doubt, you trust.
I do,
and I do believe God loves us all,
but not every one of us loves Him back, and not every one of us trust in Him and behave accordingly, not everybody has patience, everybody wants the results right away.
If we could have these eyes to see….
As I wrote before:
Everything happen for a reason.
love
Agnieszka