The thing about faith is it's completely and utterly individual. It is something that is our own to cultivate and call on when we feel necessary. No one can tell you to have faith. No one can make you have faith. It's something you decide for yourself and keep reinforcing on a daily basis. Faith is like that emergency candy you have in your purse "just in case". You know what I'm talking about. It's there when we need it most yet also there when we want it. It can be used as a life raft in tough situations but it can also be called upon when times are good and we just want a treat; something good to feed the soul. Faith is like our children's birth stories; our own unique story that only us mothers can tell.
What I love about faith is that I can't be wrong. My opinions and beliefs about God, his prophets, the afterlife, holy texts, and heaven cannot be proven. They cannot be argued against-mainly because I don't feel a need to argue for them. We have no scientific idea as to what happens to our souls after death. We can only believe they go to heaven or hell or are reborn in some other way. How do we know for sure? We don't. The beauty of faith is the mystery it solves in our own hearts and minds.
Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.”
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