Faith a Sermon From The Priest

Reason is the souls right hand, and Faith her right

~John Donne

Wise words from a wise author. Taking meaning in this is easy if you just simply take it at face value, but there is something deeper here. You see faith is taking the first step even if you cannot see the rest of the stair case!

I ask that all of you have that faith. Not in god, not in your nation, not in your government. No not in any of that... I ask that you have faith in your fellow man.

It is said that in all men is a glimmer of good, no matter how evil they may seem. I my self being a priest, I am taught and teach that all men are good, even if they do evil things. The only truly evil thing is the indifference of good men!

I have, as of late, had my own faith tested in a major may... Beyond my issues with my Exwife, I have been having doubts about humans. I almost allowed my self to become indifferent, and in doing so I nearly became evil. I try constantly to keep the faith and hold my head above the ever deepening ocean of life. At time I nearly find my self drowning, but I remain strong.

Now I ask that you all try to do the same!.. I believe we together can change the world one smile, one held door, one polite gesture at a time. It's contagious, if you are simply a good polite person people will notice and start to act the same.

This sermon is coming about because someone special to me is having an enormous amount of faith in me. She is believing that I will succeed in my ventures, and in my life in general. I got to thinking about this today and realized that no one has ever had faith in me before, and I will wager a bet that most of you have felt the same... that is that you have felt like no one is there to have faith in you... well I'm here to tell you that I have faith in you all !

All of you that read this please comment ! Express your faith in the human race to triumph over the indifference ~!

Quitting Time

I believe that I am unable to continue working towards what I have been working towards!

I have tried and tried

Now I no longer have the constitution to continue in a vigilant stride to the prize

The ends no longer justify the means

I really don't know what I'm trying to say exactly but something has gotta give

I am for once in my life like no other time beaten, bruised, and down to the pulp

For those of you who know my situation well you know what I mean

After it all the one person who should be making me feel better isn't

I try to explain my self to no avail

I work like a dog at a job, busting my ass and they didn't even pay me on time

I just have to be done
Well for all of you that will read this send me some support, I really need it ~ !

Musings maybe ? or rather those accept one that effect frustrations !

Life really isn't a box of chocolates, that is if you are paying attention you should be able to tell what you are going to get./ However sometimes even when you know its gonna a coconut cream, you end up with a cherry toffee./ ..

What is it that makes people just straight to the worst possable conclusion? I mean what ever happened to the benifit of the doubt? I myself am even guilty of no assuming good intentions all of the time, even when I don't know for sure./ This is a flaw in humanity, and it is one that is inherently there./ No matter who I dare say that we are all guilty of this act at one time or another./ But never the less, I still find myself completely blow away by this act when I fall victim to either assuming the worst, or having the worst assumed of me./ ..

In the end aren't we all really intitled to have the benifit of the doubt? And if not Why? Human nature is not to be evil, or bad in any true way, yet when good intentions are there, it is often over looked and assumed to be negative./ For me this poses a huge problem. I myself, am a priest, a man of the cloth, I am tought to believe in the good that resides with in all humans, yet I find myself deeply troubled with the lack of good, and ricousness that is actually there./ Those we care about often hurt us the most, and those we do not even know at all often help us the most./ Could it be that love, and good intentions do not go hand in hand as they should? Or is it that people might actually not be truely good by nature and are infact distructive creatures, that have no real abilities to care for another with out allowing there intentions to become jaded and turned into something far less then pu..re ?