Gotta Have Faith...

I wonder what it says about me that the first thing I thought of when I decided to write about faith was this song by George Michael. I shall choose to think it means that I am super cool AND I actually understand the definition of Faith. OR, I just love 80s music. Either way....

The best line of this song is "Before this river, comes an ocean." Now, I can't be sure of what George Michael meant by that line as I often am caught off guard by lyrics, however it absolutely addresses the key points of Faith. 

The word Faith has been taken and held hostage by the religious institutions. The idea, positive nature, and wonderful energy of "Faith" has been corrupted for many people. It also has lead some people into a state of disempowerment, as well as actually offering emotional and psyche sustenance for people in difficult times. 

Faith is the ability to use our thinking to traverse an imagined pathway beyond what it right in front of us. It is knowing that before this river that we are now facing, there is an ocean. The ocean is possibilities, options, abundance, and something bigger.

"Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

As someone who loves energy and the secure fact that energy exists with all of its fabulous principles, I easily and readily have Faith. There is no reason NOT to have Faith. Faith is simply knowing that everything moves. Everything changes. We can have absolute Faith that all is in constant motion. When we believe that things are stagnant, then we begin to feel hopeless and fall prey to the illusion that things are what they are now and forever more. Life and its "circumstances" are always changing.  

"Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."

- Betty Eadie

 Dr. Emoto has done several studies on water and the effects of vibrations from thoughts, and the emotions emitted from those thoughts, on water. Over the years and in several different locations, Dr. Emoto froze water and photographed the shapes of the crystals. He then surrounded the water in varied environments and introduced thoughts and emotions such as hatred, love, gratitude, fear, and others to the water. His discovery was that the water that was the object of positive thoughts and emotions, such as love, produced beautiful well formed snowflake crystals. Even water that had been distorted by environmental pollution or negative thought and feeling pollution changed its shape from unformed and blob-like to crystal and snowflake like.

Dr. Emoto's studies, and subsequent research by others, offers Faith in the ability of changing thoughts and emotions to affect a new tangible shape.

Faith is knowing that change is inevitable. Deep Faith is knowing that it is quite possible that YOU have a part in directing the thoughts and emotions that designate the direction of change. 

Religious Faith simply means that people consume and integrate a direction that is given to them from others and that they focus on that direction, those words, and the outcome assured when their Faith is strong. Religious Faith gives a structure and vision to the ocean that is beyond the river. It is Faith wearing a particular garment. 

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

May today be a First Day to Begin having Faith in the truth of change. May we sigh relief and smile with exuberance knowing that beyond this little river, as rushing and strong a current as it may have, there is a big vast ocean. May today be a First Day to Begin building a strong relationship to all the oceans that are perpetually available to us. Get up, dance throughout your day, and feel the joy of FAITH as the next moment brings change, flow, and beauty. The ocean beyond this river is there. We just Gotta Have Faith...