In The Beginning...

I have started this blog today to express my beliefs and to explore faith. I want to delve into my own struggle with finding faith. I've been considering doing this for awhile now. I received some final motivation to get started today, it occured to me that, Faith=Confidence. It is almost as if a light turned on in my head. I have to be confident that God is with me and watching out for me. A few days ago my lovely wife recieved an email from one of her relatives that contained a message about God. This is what it said:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning, face it friend he is crazy about you.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

That last part about how, if He brings you to it, He will bring you through it, hit me like a rock. I was struck with how profound that truly is. I believe that every sentence of the above is true.
God loves us all. Even those who dont believe in Him. I say Him because thats the traditional reference to God. But I believe that God is a duality, Father and Mother to us all. He teaches us lessons in Father form, he loves us unconditionally in Mother form. I believe in Jesus. I believe he walked the Earth. At the same time I believe he has had many names. There are distinct correlations between his teachings and that of the Hindu Gods, and that of Buddha. Whatever name you wish to use to identify him, his message is still the same. Love All. Forgive All. I came to this understanding of Gods unlimited love for us all by hearing a country music song. Randy Travis was singing about a Fathers Love. If you know the song, then you may know what I'm saying. In the song he says that "a Fathers love is a love without end, amen". That struck me as profound. I have read most of the bible, I have read every ebook I could find about exploring your inner self and self help. No one book sold me on everything but each of them left me with at least one point I could believe in as truth. Seek out the truth for yourself, go to libraries, if you truly wish to know God, look inward. Read books on the subject, look into websites and scour through religions of all sorts, you may find faith. You might just find one little nugget of wisdom that you can you can put with all your other beliefs and knowledge. I think of it as building a crown, each piece of truth or bit of knowledge, each chunk of understanding and each step towards faith are all parts of a broken crown, when you finally put it all together you are one with God. Knowledge is divine, God knows all.