Finding Faith

There are so many different religions now a days and each one of them all claim to be the worshippers of the “REAL” God. They take the approach of telling you that your going to go to Hell if you don’t agree with their beliefs and that your basically a horrible person for not going to church. Tell me what is that all about? Why are they using commercial marketing techniques like fear to get you into church for one and 2nd there are so many different types of religions out there, how are we supposed to know which one if any is telling the truth?

I say forget religion. Organized religion is like Science’s COINCIDENCE. They all claim basically the same god, but it gets undefined from there so each one of them offers their own version of how to worship and WHAT to worship. If you want to find a religion you like best and follow it then more power to you. However, I have made my spiritual decision, I am taking the personal approach to it all. I’m not going to let some organization tell me that I am wrong about how I feel and then try to stick me in a conformed mold telling me to “believe this”. Unlike science these guys are expecting me to just trust them without any physical proof and that’s a bit hard for me because I already don’t like how they attempt to suppress free thinking.

God could never expect us to REALLY find him in places like this could he? Maybe some people, but most of us probably couldn’t. It is up to us to find him out there in the world as he weaves in and out through daily lives.
Some people find him In hard times… a mother gets in a car accident and she isn’t supposed to make it, the family prays and she recovers IT’S A MIRACLE…. This family, expecting their loved one to die, suddenly was just overwhelmed with relief and a strengthened love for the lord. She was saved.

Some may ask… How come when god does something good HE works miracles but when something bad happens either the devil did it or simply “he just works in mysterious ways” I agree that both of those answers are bull shit cop-outs, they are “COINCIDENCES” are they not? I think that god DOES allow bad things to happen to people and there is nothing wrong with that at all. We are on a journey of life and beyond the every -day tedious things that we do it is our responsibility to use these bodies as vessels to carry our inner souls. Life is about strengthening your soul, its about understanding what YOU really believe in and molding yourself into who you want to be. Look back in life and name ONE THING that happened to you that you felt was horrible that you DIDN’T learn something from? Name one bumpy road that you didn’t make it out of? You stubbed your toes, you skinned your knees, you cut your elbows when you were a kid… maybe you didn’t learn a lesson at the time but those scrapes and bruises taught you WHAT pain was and gave you a real example of it. So when you got into a car accident when you were 16 and glass cut your face up you would be prepared and not shocked at the feeling of pain, you were prepped for it.

When things get really hard though… when you go off the deep end in life and everything goes horribly wrong for you I think that’s where god is present most of all. It is my belief that life on this planet is merely a way of forming our souls and getting them ready for the after life. When your soul is ready… that’s when you die, that’s when you get to leave this vehicle we call a body and live real life. So when you have pain from all directions and you feel like you are at your lowest that’s when something will pull you out of it. Maybe god’s subtle hints that he is present wasn’t enough for you so he put you at your lowest just to pull you out. The trick is to not take that for granted. Don’t think it’s a coincidence when everything gets better in your life. I’m not saying believe its god, I’m just saying believe in SOMETHING because everyone needs something to believe in and if we don’t start noticing life’s wonders then what is the point of living anyways? Listen to music and sing along, let it give you goose bumps… if you like gardening spend your afternoon in the flower bed and enjoy yourself… whatever it is that you love in this world I want you to do it. And at that moment when you feel so much happiness in such a small little aspect of life I want you to ask yourself how you DON’T believe in a higher power?