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A good friend of many years sent this to my email......
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"Faith is: .. dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities." - Unknown
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He wanted to know my thoughts on it.
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Beautiful, isn't it? And so encouraged and inspired I replied............
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Faith is magnificent. But like anything of immense beauty, value, and significance is quite difficult (to say the least) to pursue. Faith is itself the prize to anyone's struggles aimed to hold it in the heart. And yet fragile too as one can lose it anytime. --- To achieve it is a task which a full-grown man or woman can fail at quite easily despite his/her intelligence, righteousness, bravado, or wit.
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It is easy to make claim to what it does to peoples' lives but living it is a different thing. I struggle with it in every challenge life sends me. Every faith-challenging-moment different from the next....with faith staggering under its weight. In some, faith could soar high like riding on wings of a mighty eagle...... and then again in some, nothing happens to the dozen or so prayers of pleading. Faith bashed to the ground by the silence of the heavens.
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So it's true what's been said about it....you pray for faith; it's not one you're born with. You take it one day at a time..one day to the next. One faith experience after another. That I think explains what the bible is telling us....you live by the grace of God, for God, and with God.
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Our life therefore is truly a journey of faith...from learning it, praying for it, living it. All by God's design.
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Blessings to you, my friends. Keep up the faith.
A good friend of many years sent this to my email......
.
"Faith is: .. dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities." - Unknown
.
He wanted to know my thoughts on it.
.
Beautiful, isn't it? And so encouraged and inspired I replied............
.
Faith is magnificent. But like anything of immense beauty, value, and significance is quite difficult (to say the least) to pursue. Faith is itself the prize to anyone's struggles aimed to hold it in the heart. And yet fragile too as one can lose it anytime. --- To achieve it is a task which a full-grown man or woman can fail at quite easily despite his/her intelligence, righteousness, bravado, or wit.
.
It is easy to make claim to what it does to peoples' lives but living it is a different thing. I struggle with it in every challenge life sends me. Every faith-challenging-moment different from the next....with faith staggering under its weight. In some, faith could soar high like riding on wings of a mighty eagle...... and then again in some, nothing happens to the dozen or so prayers of pleading. Faith bashed to the ground by the silence of the heavens.
.
So it's true what's been said about it....you pray for faith; it's not one you're born with. You take it one day at a time..one day to the next. One faith experience after another. That I think explains what the bible is telling us....you live by the grace of God, for God, and with God.
.
Our life therefore is truly a journey of faith...from learning it, praying for it, living it. All by God's design.
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Blessings to you, my friends. Keep up the faith.
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