Faith is at the center of our life's but ...What is faith? Webster’s online dictionary defines faith as “Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:13). “The primary thing is that faith is trust or a belief. The belief in something that is considered true and therefore; it is worthy of trust.
“Optimism is the foundation of courage” and without being sure and optimistic that you can trust someone you cannot have faith. When you believe that you can do something or when you are sure you can trust someone it shows a deep relationship. Life is built on relationships. What if some do not believe will their unbelief make the belief that others have in them without effect? Certainly not! God sent his son down to heaven with the faith that he would forgive us for all our sins.
I questioned Mrs. Lindeman about faith as I really like how she speaks. She said it is: “knowing without tangible evidence”. A synonym she used to explain this was when the wind blows you know there is wind, you see the leaves rustling but you cannot catch the wind and say ‘here it’s the wind’. However, faith is not real and you do not really believe if you do not act upon it. Faith comes before action as you must have the trust before you can act on it. Faith is not passive, it is active: when you have the faith you do not just act on it once but you know that you can trust the outcome to be the very same as it was the last time. The effect it has in the relation to the world is the way we live. Faith can be seen a person’s actions.
My room-mate Cha-Cha said “This world goes around because of faith, everything depends on faith. Well, we are speaking all these words because we have faith on the form of making a sound with our lips that can help up communicate. And money pieces of paper with dead presidents on it but we can trust that we can get something with it. The most important thing in the world such as God, religion, love, friendship and everything it just depends on your belief of what really exists.” What she believes is the most important things in the world are the things you cannot see like faith and love. "This world evolves because faith still exists somehow, somewhere in some form." When she said that it just proved what my math teacher told me. You can see faith only when it is acted upon. You can only see love when a person acts upon their feeling. Otherwise you cannot take it and show it without actions as words can only last for a while.
So, when people do portray their faith and beliefs. They must consider that everyone has faith in different things and this can lead to conflict. As they would act differently there would be friction which would cause discontent. There are times when our trust is betrayed and we are left looking foolish at times like that we have to just get the courage to get up again. However, we cannot always live thinking about how we are going to be let down. We must live in an optimistic manner and believe that if we do good then good will come out of it: what goes around comes around. That is what I have faith in. God will bless you with what you have but only if you do good will good happen to you eventually. All we have to do is be still and believe: have faith! in yourself. Believe that you can always make it through.
Like the Japanese proverb “fall sever times, stand up eight”.
Or the song by Smash Mouth
“I get knocked down.
“Optimism is the foundation of courage” and without being sure and optimistic that you can trust someone you cannot have faith. When you believe that you can do something or when you are sure you can trust someone it shows a deep relationship. Life is built on relationships. What if some do not believe will their unbelief make the belief that others have in them without effect? Certainly not! God sent his son down to heaven with the faith that he would forgive us for all our sins.
I questioned Mrs. Lindeman about faith as I really like how she speaks. She said it is: “knowing without tangible evidence”. A synonym she used to explain this was when the wind blows you know there is wind, you see the leaves rustling but you cannot catch the wind and say ‘here it’s the wind’. However, faith is not real and you do not really believe if you do not act upon it. Faith comes before action as you must have the trust before you can act on it. Faith is not passive, it is active: when you have the faith you do not just act on it once but you know that you can trust the outcome to be the very same as it was the last time. The effect it has in the relation to the world is the way we live. Faith can be seen a person’s actions.
My room-mate Cha-Cha said “This world goes around because of faith, everything depends on faith. Well, we are speaking all these words because we have faith on the form of making a sound with our lips that can help up communicate. And money pieces of paper with dead presidents on it but we can trust that we can get something with it. The most important thing in the world such as God, religion, love, friendship and everything it just depends on your belief of what really exists.” What she believes is the most important things in the world are the things you cannot see like faith and love. "This world evolves because faith still exists somehow, somewhere in some form." When she said that it just proved what my math teacher told me. You can see faith only when it is acted upon. You can only see love when a person acts upon their feeling. Otherwise you cannot take it and show it without actions as words can only last for a while.
So, when people do portray their faith and beliefs. They must consider that everyone has faith in different things and this can lead to conflict. As they would act differently there would be friction which would cause discontent. There are times when our trust is betrayed and we are left looking foolish at times like that we have to just get the courage to get up again. However, we cannot always live thinking about how we are going to be let down. We must live in an optimistic manner and believe that if we do good then good will come out of it: what goes around comes around. That is what I have faith in. God will bless you with what you have but only if you do good will good happen to you eventually. All we have to do is be still and believe: have faith! in yourself. Believe that you can always make it through.
Like the Japanese proverb “fall sever times, stand up eight”.
Or the song by Smash Mouth
“I get knocked down.
But I get up again.
You're never going to keep me down.”
citations : picture from http://faith.propadeutic.com/authors/authors.html
japanese quote from the T.C.I.S. journal.
2 comments:
“I get knocked down.But I get up again.You're never going to keep me down.” I thought this was an interesting quote! I like how u related this to faith, as to never give up and always have faith. Aww,, Chacha's quote is so Chacha.. I remember u told me that when U writing your blog! I thought this was the most important part of your blog, "The most important thing in the world such as God, religion, love, friendship and everything it just depends on your belief of what really exists" beacause it sums up your beliefs. Also this post was interesting to read because you put different perspectives of people we know so it helped me relate. Nice work! ^^ nyaz
-Pritha
Danika you have proven consistently that you are a deep thinker and asking questions of others is essential. I hope other students learn from you and use good sources like you do. Mrs.Mc.
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