Comments on: What It Means to Have Faith http://stevenmichas.com/have-faith Personal Development for the Mind, Body and Soul Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David A. Brenner http://stevenmichas.com/have-faith/comment-page-1#comment-2 David A. Brenner Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:42:11 +0000 http://stevenmichas.com/?p=48#comment-2 Yes yes. God cannot truly help us until we understand that he is not "all around us" but inside and a part of us. He is not the physical air we breathe, but can transport his love through it if we want it and are accepting. On that next point (we run our own lives and events happen as we want them to)... The lack of this ideal is a top reason members of this universe have "shit happen to them." If you are thinking of the worst and letting those thoughts infect you, then it will happen and any negative scenarios you play out in your head will most likely come true. I often think when someone says, "I knew that was going to happen" it is not because they had good premonition of the event, but rather believed so much that it would happen a certain way — and so it does. That person could then go on to validate themselves for correctly guessing a chain of events when in actuality they made those events happen. I have done this myself many times and it is the easiest way to psych yourself out. Think you are not the best in any kind of lineup and you won't be. These simple facts are what define FAITH. Yes yes. God cannot truly help us until we understand that he is not “all around us” but inside and a part of us. He is not the physical air we breathe, but can transport his love through it if we want it and are accepting.

On that next point (we run our own lives and events happen as we want them to)…
The lack of this ideal is a top reason members of this universe have “shit happen to them.” If you are thinking of the worst and letting those thoughts infect you, then it will happen and any negative scenarios you play out in your head will most likely come true. I often think when someone says, “I knew that was going to happen” it is not because they had good premonition of the event, but rather believed so much that it would happen a certain way — and so it does. That person could then go on to validate themselves for correctly guessing a chain of events when in actuality they made those events happen. I have done this myself many times and it is the easiest way to psych yourself out.

Think you are not the best in any kind of lineup and you won’t be. These simple facts are what define FAITH.

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