I firmly believe that we all are worthy of Good things in life and just a willingness to believe in Good is the best, simplest place to start. It’s a doorway to having real faith in positive outcomes, and I am here to encourage anyone willing and interested to go through it.  If that is snake oil, then I guess I’m selling it.

The thing about faith is that not every day contains a revelation. Sometimes, there are slow days. That’s when it’s easy to slip into old habits of unfaithful living. It’s almost easier to keep praying and having faith when life is a BLEEPshow.

I would argue the willingness to believe we are worthy of Good and the willingness to believe we are worthy of being devoted to our creative passions are one and the same. Going all in on God and ourselves is kind of the same gesture, if you think about it. 

This is the wicked part of having faith. The whole goal is to enact change, but once it starts happening, it unfolds in unanticipated ways and touches every part of our being. For most of us, this is disconcerting. Even if we’re building toward a more positive future. Especially then.

How many times do those of us who struggle to believe get ourselves into a real bind and start praying our little BLEEPS off? God must be like, who dis?

I can attest that when we’re tuned in to the Universe and preoccupying ourselves with prayer and meditation, rather than hopelessness and rumination, it is true that there are basically NO coincidences.

Yesterday, I was thinking about fear and how it can function as an armor against love or opportunity. Love isn’t really love when it’s full of fear. We can’t actually experience the full breadth and depth of it with misgivings or hedging our bets against the future. 

Living a faithful life is a bit like being a walking glow stick. Before, I was living in darkness, and then something broke open, and now the most important thing I can do is be a light for others.

Faith does not have to be complicated. It really can just start with a willingness to believe that we are worthy of Good. The sole purpose of this blog is to just help people start there. What we all do with it from there is up to us and God. 

It’s only been a couple of weeks, but it has been eye-opening and faith building. I am asking for help far more frequently, and the craziest part is I am getting the help I need. 

I think the most useful component to having faith in Good or God, once we get over the sheer insanity of a willingness to believe, is that it gives us hope for a better future.

I have lived an exhausting life for a long time. This version, full of prayer, meditation, holding still, and asking for help, has actually been much more restful and much more productive.

Five stars, highly recommend.  

Once we get over smarting from hitting a bottom, brush ourselves off, look around, and become willing to just say BLEEP IT, put our hands together and pray, there’s actually a lot of fun to be had if we stick with it. 

Now that I have some semblance of faith, however small, I am inclined to aim God right at the problem. Make this different for me, please, and hop to it!

I am pretty sure that isn’t how God operates.

Like many of us, I have long hated being alone. I have spent a lot of time going out of my way to create social activities or make plans or occupy my time with others, often to the point of exhaustion.

I think one of the wonderful things about faith is that in some ways it limits our options and in other ways it allows us to flourish beyond our wildest dreams.

I believe there is no wrong way to have faith, just like there is no wrong way to clean a house. Everyone does both a little differently, and things will get worse before it gets better, but if we are focused on having faith, that really is just a sign that we are making progress.

Sometimes, faith becomes a last resort for people when it comes to solving problems or soothing pain. It’s too bad, because in some ways it may be the most effective.

In the New Age, self-help world, there is a lot of talk about “resistance” to the Universe or God or Good or the power of manifestation. In therapy, resistance is akin to self-sabotage. They are similar ideas seen from different angles.

Basically, we put barriers between ourselves and love, success, happiness, connection, and peace all the time.

Fortunately for you, dear reader, I have nominated myself as a spiritual guinea pig, so I am going to test this theory out… One can only imagine what kind of positive hell might break loose.

Pray for me.