My Faith

So despite being an "Ex-Christian" I am a person of faith.

I have faith in myself.  I believe and live by the faith that I will grow as a human in love and compassion.  I have faith that I will recover from my mistakes and that I will allow my successes and failures to transform me into a better person.

I have faith that others are capable of learning to grow, think, love and recover from their mistakes.

I have faith that living in the present moment will put my worries and fears into the right perspective.

I have faith that the seeds of love, kindness and compassion that I plant will grow.

I am trying to live this faith out from day to day.  It's not a complex -ology held together by a web of correctly ordered texts.  It's a faith born out of hardship and experience, joy and love.

My faith is about being true to myself and the people in my sphere of influence,  rather than being true to a god or a religious text.  

I know many wonderful people who are true to themselves and others while still maintaining a belief in a god, but to me their act of faith is how the live their lives,  not the fact they believe something difficult to prove.  

I think faith is needed in our world.  If people come to the kind of faith that produces love, kindness and compassion through a religious path that is fine by me.  If people come to that kind of faith through humanism, therapy, charity work, or life experiences, that is great too.  We need people of faith in this world.   To many people are drifting through life caught up in fear, doubt and selfishness, which are at the root of so many of the problems in our world.

Those of us who have faith need to stop fighting each other on whose faith is best, and start helping those who live in fear.






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Cassandra said…
"I believe and live by the faith that I will grow as a human in love and compassion. I have faith that I will recover from my mistakes and that I will allow my successes and failures to transform me into a better person."

I love this line. :) I think we all need to learn to allow our experiences to transform us and to become more loving and compassionate.
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