Always new; always fresh, faith is an underlying
principle that breathes life in to all of our activities. Faith flows fresh and
new every moment from the seat of Tender Loving Kindness and it is ours in
whatever quantity we wish. We do not possess faith we instead embrace it so we
cannot tarnish, deface or abuse it in anyway. Faith is infinite so there is no
shortage or lack of any kind. Finally, faith expressed is not our belief in
anything but our belief in all things.
Faith is imbued in all creation. Our Lord, the source and
substance of faith believes in us beyond anything we can possibly imagine. Can
we not believe in our God just a little? This is not to say believing there is
a God is faith, but believing God is in all things, that His tenderness and His
faith is the foundation from which all life is manifest. There is nothing we cannot have faith in
because there is nothing in which faith is absent.
We run in to difficulty when we require anything to
simply accept the infinite faith that flows from the foundation of grace. Faith
never responds to reason but to faith itself.
The only acts that can awaken faith within us are genuine acts of faith.
How often so many of us have sought for assurance in order express faith, never
realizing that we were seeking to be convinced not to be faithful. Faith can
never be justified only awakened and if brought about any other way it may not
be faith after all.
A faithful life is one lived with the awareness of God’s
presence in all things; the understanding that all life is imbued with Infinite
Loving Kindness. When we treat all things with the same gentleness, the same
kindness, the same tenderness with which they are permeated we make God’s faith
our own. In this way we can express faith in wholly original and personal ways.
Faith is not an accepting of conditions but a seizing
upon the goodness in all things regardless of their outward appearance. It is
acting in the knowledge that infinite mercy would not allow us to experience
anything that did not have wholly redemptive qualities. Finally, faith is not
something but it is ultimately everything for those in whom it has been awakened.
Let us go out into the promise of this day and by our
behavior awaken faith in those we encounter. In this may we resist the urge to
convince anyone but through our acts of faith, to awaken the best in all those
with whom we come in contact. We are children of incomprehensible goodness and
our life rises from that inexplicable faith our Lord has in each of us. Nothing
can defeat us because our faith is larger than anything that can possibly
challenge it. When our focus is on the presence of God in all things no events
can defeat us.
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