A Little Faith

 

The sense of being stared at: this idea is, of course, very old indeed. However, scientific inquiry, into the phenomenon is fairly new. Today, Rupert Sheldrake is probably one of the leading supporters of the idea and he has not been embraced by science with his ideas; although there is science behind his assumptions.

I personally believe this science is almost too young to be taken seriously. Children are often thought to have childish imaginations until they become teenagers and then adults, still maintaining their youthful dreams until their dreams are actually realized and then the same adult who had all of those silly, childish dreams, becomes celebrated for sticking with their dreams until they became realities.

I was probably deterred from being a famous musician because I dreamed of being a famous musician and was never taken seriously. Instead of clinging to my dreams, I embarrassingly hid them and even denied them by saying, “I’m really not that good.”

The foolish always confound the wise in the end. The only thing that can prevent anyone from realizing a dream is their own failure to continue in the foolish notion until the foolishness of it becomes their wisdom.

“If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.” ~ William Blake.

My question for today is this: Was William Blake correct or was he simply joking or mocking the fool?

Calling the dreamer a fool is as misleading as calling the realizer of a dream a hero. There are no fools who are fools because they dream and there are no heroes who are heroes because they succeed.

There are actually too many cases to study where a very successful person points back to their youthful dreams of the goals they realized later on.

I’ve always said that Paul was not advising anyone to put away childish toys; he was expressing regret for having done so.

If I am right, then so was Neville Goddard. Neville understood Blake in his own, unique way, but I think Goddard actually captured what Blake was saying. And I think Blake was saying what some of our ancient teachers were saying. There is now one thing I believe completely: that belief is the imagination in action and fundamental to all creation.

It is not enough to secretly dream of any outcome without believing in that outcome. If you drive by a house and you find yourself dreaming of that house, nothing happens. That is only your imagination. But if you can take this dream to the next level and believe that you can and will have that house, then Creation itself gets involved and it becomes increasingly difficult for any obstacle to stop you from realizing that dream.

If you doubt any outcome at all, then I would tell you that it is safe to say that you are probably not going to be surprised by a different outcome.

In the same way, if you have no doubt about a specific outcome, the odds of being surprised will always increase; but the surprise will almost always be that the outcome surpasses your idea.

Creation loves to outperform the imagination.

I actually have too many specific examples to dismiss this idea at all.

Anyone who has ever had their mind blown will tell you that they lit the fuse, not realizing what sort of explosion would result.

In every case, my faith in anything small has erupted, split, magnified and spread beyond anything I could have ever hoped for.

It never takes the faith necessary to move a mountain, to actually move a mountain; one only needs the faith that a more reasonable outcome will occur.

I hesitate to say this because of the way it can be mistranslated, but I will do it anyway: God is able to do more than you can think or imagine.

Ah, but this is not to say that one need not think or imagine; it only means that if you can have some faith, then more than that will always unfold.

Suppose I say the following:

“I asked God for enough money to pay a payment on my truck and I knew he would come through for me somehow.”

Well, if you look at this statement, there is no doubt here. But there isn’t any heavy-lifting idea either. It’s as if I’d be asking God to help me to get by and then somehow believing he’d be glad to help.

That is mustard-seed faith. But as a result of believing that God would help me to get by, he always does exceedingly, abundantly more.

I know this to be true because it is not unusual for me to suddenly find that I have the miraculous means to pay more than the one payment I believed I’d be able to pay.

If this happened every so often, I’d call it chance; but it happens every time I believe.

If I took the time to tell you about where I am in life right now, then you would see that I have the living proof of a life beyond what I could have imagined. There isn’t just one or two boxes checked; every aspect of my entire life is beyond my wildest dreams in every way.

And why is that? It is directly a result of wild dreams. God has exceeded my expectations; not because I had none, but because I had some. He always blows my mind.

I had a dread the other night, in which I had forgotten that I live in an enormous mansion? This is how life unfolds for me. I’ve got rooms I forgot and the doors never reveal what lies beyond them.

God is bigger than you know.