Belief

 

Belief is fundamental. 

As surely as I know this, I still find myself coming up against walls of resistance and obstacles between myself and my desire. How is that possible?

The other night, Julian asked me what circumvent means. I told him that it simply means “a way around.”

I could tell he was not completely satisfied with that explanation, so I told him to imagine coming to a roadblock on a road – any road. And now, suppose there is a temporary, gravel road, created for passengers to go around the roadblock so they can travel onward. “That,” I said, “Is to circumvent the roadblock.”

Even knowing all about circumventing and its definition, I seem to forget the implications when I find myself unable to move forward with a plan. There are times when I forget to look for ways around whatever prevents me from achieving goals.

I have always wanted a cabin in the mountains of North Georgia. I’ve tried, unsuccessfully, to explain why this is so important to me. However, as desires go, this one is severe. And using transcendental meditation, I will say this: There is a cabin in the mountains, and it belongs to me. I enjoy it very much and I take my loved ones there and I give them keys to it as well. It is very clean, open and bright on the inside, and rather dark – almost hidden – on the outside. There is a crescent-shaped driveway, meandering up the hill, to a level place to park behind the cabin.

What is all this nonsense about the cabin that isn’t there? That’s just it: it is not something I can sense; therefor it must have something to do with belief.

“Faith is the cabin I cannot see, and the evidence of it actually being there.”

It’s only nonsense in that it cannot be sensed. If that were the end of that, it would have been the end of the world, millions of years ago.

In 1947, shortly before his death, my grandfather would have considered cellular phones and the internet nonsense. This does not mean he was shortsighted; it just means that the scope of future innovation had not been uploaded to his then-belief system.

I’ll be the first to agree with you; that my cabin idea is nonsense; but I have uploaded an indisputable image of it into my belief-system. I can believe what I cannot sense.

“Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” ~ Jesus, John 20:29

Look carefully at this loving advice. To be blessed is to receive; to receive requires belief. The theme is in every good teaching you will ever study.

We create fearful outcomes by first giving them the power to exist through our belief-system. We create hopeful outcomes in the same way.

If you’ll hold a loaded gun in your hand, all day, every day, you’ll eventually have an enemy to shoot.

Every additional feature you add to boost your safety, is an invitation to the challenges of that feature.

It is far better not to think about your house being broken into than it is to think about it until it happens.

“Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” ~ God

Yes, I have a cabin in the mountains.

 

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