Bosy, I would love you to read this.

Faith

Saw Harry yesterday at van's birthday party and i thought he looks alot more charming.I always thought he is somebody really sweet,generous and quite a gentleman too. But everybody is nice, and they can be nice if they can afford to. There are few that would be nice even if they are in wretched conditions themselves.True generosity shines in those who can be giving even when they cannot. I tried to live by that utopian value, but ideals dont live long because reality often gets the triumph.

I guess thats where faith comes in.Because it does not live by evidences and not at all proportionate to amount of efforts put into ideals. It is an utopian value and requires one to believe even when one cannot. Belief is an act of giving and it is both difficult and easy to master. However, belief is not like blind faith, in any case, it is the opposite of it.Because belief is a manifestation of true generosity, it is empowered by the presence of failures,despair,helplessness,disappointment,stress,sadness and regrets. Without these wretched conditions, faith cannot exist. When faith cannot exist, God cannot exist.

Faith is not for the weak hearted and narrow-minded.For it feeds on strength, that if we believe, comes from God.And if one is narrow-minded, one cannot see beyond the vision that is presented before them. They always say God has a path planned for each one of us, but if He gives one the power of free will, how does he plan so? The power of free will seemed like a ridicule against God's planned path. So many times we see ourselves in a difficult decision-making juncture, in which, both paths entails pros and cons.And if we still believe there is one planned path, we have only the future to verify this. We cant say that "ëverything happens for a purpose" unless we have reached the purpose and relect on its precedence.There is no way to falsify this belief of one-planned-path, and it is subjected to hindsight bias(that no matter how bad things are,almost anything can be rationalized as "happening for a good reason").

This vision needs a little amendment.I happened to think that God has planned for us many paths, like that of parallel universes. Every path has its reason, and each path has no way to verify its purpose unless it is reached and reflected upon. And only God can transcend all the dimensions, all the paths, to understand and vouch for their validity. For He is the Creator and El-Shaddai. We mere beings of neurotic transactions may not comprehend the purpose of life, or lives, and that's where Faith comes in. Where "...faith is being sureof what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.." and "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."

Amen.