Faith comes thru saying......

I take this cue from God who spake the world into existence. He said it and it was so. We have to believe things that are not as though they were. If one can relate to the existence of spirit they can understand the physical that is seen as coming from the unseen. All things seen came from the unseen. This places the physical world under time and it is subject to change, on it's appointed course. There are many spirits but only one Holy Spirit. More in God is Existence. 

How you get faith...........

And, how do we get enough faith? Enough faith comes with success. This brings Billie Holiday into the mix as she is quoted as recalling someone's comment that we'll never know how much is enough until we have too much.

The ancient writers only indicate one way as far as I can determine.. Read and reread until  faith is within us.  Faith is unlimited and persists forever but not always believers..

A preacher once told me that if we pray for two men and only one is healed that God changed His mind. First the preacher quit believing under his own time restrictions and then blamed his own decision on God.  He changed his mind, God didn't. As always, more later.....

Speculations....

I am writing for understanding and clarification. I am figuring ideas out to see what I can come up with on the fly. It would not be the first time discoveries came from mistskes. This would be possible because God spoke through design.

Definiton of definimg, why?

I define everything for myself, tthat is my procedure. Let any others define for everyone but I'll do it for myself. Many haven't even defined God for themselves and that even in a debate.  I think it unprofitable to think too much about what is wrong. It can get tangled up too easily with what's right.  I think for myself.  Tkinking for anyone else would make me a reactionary. I think that , we might say.

Definition of art....

Art is not a subject, it is a verb. It is not what you do, it is how you do it.

Time outside a comparative state....if

If earth were doing fine outside our orbit with the sun, we would be outside time and be in eternity, wouldn't we?

We'll never have all the facts so we must rely on faith.....

Based solely on the knowledge we had in the womb before being born who would want to trade the perfect environment, water, where everything is automatically taken care of for us? What will happen if we are kicked out of the garden of Eden? We will be hung upside down by our heels, wacked on our ass unexpectedly, get periodically cold, hungry, and pay taxes. Not a good deal based solely on the knowledge we had to go on at the time. So it was good to be born and I believe even better when the "arm of flesh" fails us, as it surely will.

Definition of faith....

Faith is believing those things that are not as though they were.

OK to die....

If it was OK to be born then it will be OK to die....

Looking back is true sadness...

The past is pure sadness no matter whether it is happy or not. Any story that covers too much time will gradually cover itself with some sense of loss when you realize it all over especially when it was a bad event. Our spirit longs for eternity.

When health was treasured.....

When I was young money was for fun and health was not treasured.  When I was old,  money was too late for fun or health.

From a great quote master.....

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde