Life is a journey it's not an event. It's about progress not perfection, spirituality not religion. Pain equals growth equals faith! No?
It pretty well sums it up for me though. I also realize that not everyone and possibly very few have the same beliefs that I have when it comes to my faith or at times lack thereof.
I frequently, as much as daily see on social sites such as facebook and twitter that @helpus (made up) and Jaxsn Lee asking for prayers for family and or friends. I listen to and hear folks share about their beliefs and their faith on a regular basis. These same people myself included at times tend to forget that it's about His will, not mine be done.
I share with them that if I pray (and I do daily) then I need to do so faithfully. Why pray or believe in a Greater Power than myself if I am going to do so without faith. If I pray for a situation, a person be it family or friend or even a short time acquaintance then I am doing so with a belief that the situation or prayer will be answered according to His will for me or better yet His will in that situation/prayer. If not then why do I pray?
Some say, and I was raised believing that, worrying, fretting or dealing with anxiety over events that I have no control over is a lack of my faith. I used to worry about that. Worry that since I am worrying it means I have little or no faith. Wow, how controlling is that? I used to think that, "what's the use", what's the use in praying since I am going to worry anyway. And since I am worrying it means I don't have faith so my prayer is not being heard anyway.
For me this was a way of allowing the evil one (what ever you consider that to be) to have control over my life and keep me from my understanding and belief in a Greater One. In other words I was going ahead and relinquishing control over the situation admitting defeat and powerlessness prior to even giving my God a chance.
I hope it helps by saying that today I choose to have faith by praying in such a manner that the outcome is according to His will for me and or that situation what ever it may be I am praying for.
You ask, why are you blogging about this you don't tend to blog about such things. I must tell you I do so with sadness in my heart and emotional well being. I just read on facebook about an acquaintance who died while giving birth. She was very young (around 27/28 yrs old) and a lot of friends and followers are just in shock. I must say it is a very shocking thing to read about by all means. The first thing many of us want to do is to ask, "why" , why God? Why take such a beautiful soul at such a very young age and to do so, leaving a couple of other children, family and friends behind.
It's not for me to say, it's not for me to ask why. It happened, it's out of my control, it's out of your control. Now it's time to pray for the well being of the other children, the family members who are left in shock and the friends who are left shaking our heads.
I truly believe that once I am called Home to the other land or the place some refer to as Heaven that I will not EVER ask why! I will have the answer.
"Why" will not even be in my vocabulary, the answer to questions I have today will be evident. It won't even cross my thoughts to wonder why anymore. So it helps me to think like this in today's life so that I won't let troubling situations and events take control and cause me to react instead of acting.
So I ask you, when you pray do you pray with faith that the answered prayer is according to His will or according to what you want the answer to be? Pray with faith that you will find peace in any outcome of your prayer. Praying without faith is like reading without eyes, listening without ears and or thinking without believing. God hears me even when I am not on my knees, even when I am angry because that is who He is. He is all knowing, all loving and all forgiving...that's my God.
Who's yours? What's your belief when it comes to prayer and God?