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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Faith in a messed up world

It isn’t easy to be a believer in today’s world.

To feel confident that despite the monumental economic hurdles, people’s financial lives will ever get better.

To see hope that in the near future, world citizens who had the misfortune of suffering unbearable and insurmountable calamities wrought by Mother Nature would ever get back on their feet again.

To imagine even a glint of light in a long dark tunnel of constant day-to-day hardships.

To feel any encouragement in relationships that have reached a forked road because of irreconcilable differences.

For many people, this feeling of wonder even for the worst of situations and seeing a gleam of positive forecast for tomorrow despite the gloominess of today is called FAITH.

Faith is a miracle drug that blessed human beings experience even when the world is spinning crazy and events are unfolding that dismay the majority.  Feel lucky if you have faith because you know that no matter how bad anything goes, things can turn around and surprising developments can unfold before your eyes.

Faith stems from a genuinely positive thinker who can overcome any rough weather the day may bring.  Anyone who can boast of possessing faith is a creature blessed to the core. 

No, it isn’t easy to picture the positive when everywhere we look, there seems to be no reason to nurture hope.  Nor does it come easy to feel encouraged or motivated when everyone around us is a prophet of doom.  It is therefore up to us to uplift ourselves (be the solution rather than the problem), pumping up our sagging spirit and uplifting the energy in the Universe. 

We are the master of our thoughts, the captain of our emotions, the director of our future.  We should find inspiration from the amazing risen-from-the-ashes Phoenix so that even when we are faced with the greatest obstacles or fighting the most challenging battles of our lifetime, we can rise to the occasion… and get up from our personal downfall.