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When you come to the end of everything you know In the age of reason, faith has become synonymous with belief. I did a search on faith on the internet and religious organizations came up most describing their"faith." This is not faith. This is a belief system that has proven to be beneficial to a group of people. If faith were belief, it would be one of those things we would need to "nullify" before reaching a dimension higher than the 3D world we live in. Nullifying is not removing, but accepting as merely a belief. In reality, actual faith is a bridge to the fourth dimension not because it exemplifies belief but rather trust. As Patrick Overton describes, faith is a knowing in the face of the unknown. It almost beyond description in our present limited language. Faith is something we know when we see it, but it really can't be described. Some people call it a mystery. What we are talking about goes beyond the reason of mind or the feeling of heart. It is a fundamental trust in the Divine nature of life. We are a spark of divinity within a sea of life, and despite what happens, we have faith that as long as we honor the Divine in the end everything will be shown to be of the highest possible good. In our daily struggle of living, many of us lack faith in our personal power to achieve those spiritual goals that we desire to see blossom. Instead, we decide that faith is for the powerful and the heroes in life. Taking a leap of faith is considered somewhat dangerous for those of us ruled by the logic of the mind. So we externalize our need to live in faith by celebrating those among us who follow a dream based on faith alone and achieve it despite tremendous opposition. The truth is we all have that power. We all have immense resources of faith. They just go untapped. We all are capable of living authentic lives with faith as our cornerstone. Do we have a dream we want to pursue but our mind tells us it is impossible? Great time to exercise faith. It can start small. I have heard that if one has a goal that one will always achieve it, if it's worked at daily. Each small step is one step closer to the goal and the goal will eventually be reached if we are persistant and faithful in our endeavors. So, maybe you want to write that novel? It starts with faith and then pick up the a pen and write out a sentence. You can have faith that despite having never done something before, it is perfectly possible. All things are possible with faith. Even Christ said: "If you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains." Faith is an action verb synonymous with trust, trust in the all-powerful Divine within. When we step out into darkness, we can know that there is a solution, that there is a greater dimension outside waiting to capture our imaginations and our hearts. In multi-dimensional reality, we can know we are not doing things alone, that our multidimensional selves are there supporting us. We can also know that the world isn't flat, and we won't fall off if we dare to step beyond our present boundaries. Bruce Wilkinson wrote a very simple book entitled: The Dream Giver. In it, an individual from the land of ordinary follows a dream and encounters a wasteland before he can get to the realization of his dream. The wasteland becomes the transformation crucible where Ordinary Man becomes something greater than themselves through Faith. Bruce asserts that if he'd only known that all wastelands are a Gift from the Dream Giver, he would never doubt again. In the November 2003 issue of
Ray Nascent, I will profile a man very symbolic for our times:
Buckminister Fuller. A man who was expelled from Harvard, his
first child died, he was unemployed and bankrupt, and his wife
had just birthed a new child. This was Mr. Fuller's wasteland.
He decided he would commit suicide. However, from this vantage
point he made a important jump in consciousness and understanding.
Check out the November Issue of Ray Nascent in the members
section to see how this man overcame his own failures by understanding
alone to make it through the wasteland of his life. If you are
not already a member, then sign
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