Psalms 136:1 says “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love (grace) endures forever.” That is the art of faith. For now, we won’t get into the Jewish, Muslim, Christian or any other faith. The art of faith is to understand that there is love, there is grace. Even if you have no idea what that grace is, and even if that grace is perceived as an awful, terrible act. The world isn’t built in a day, this view of things is from a higher and deeper perspective; a perspective you don’t have right now.
Faith is the essence of good, and when it depends or is contingent on one thing or another, it is not faith, it is optimism, it is aspiration. Faith, on the other hand, is the place that comes and says that there is a purpose for everything, that there is order and essence and meaning. And the meaning is often hidden from the eyes of the believer, just as it is hidden from the eyes of the nonbeliever. When you ask about faith, that faith is not something tangible. It is inside the heart. It is the understanding that the perspective you observe life from is just one, and it is limited. That perspective is of the here and now and it is also concealed…covered up by things. As such, it can’t be seen.
Faith is the understanding that there is more that is hidden than what we see and know; that the essence of nature is growth and development and goodness. In addition, nature repeats itself: Every year, we have winter; every year the trees shed their leaves. Death is part of nature. And acts, as they are occurring in your world right now, are part of the earthquakes that humankind is experiencing. The earthquakes is exposing many things and you are in the middle of an ongoing earthquake. It’s not over yet. Those minor earthquakes that slightly shake the house and nothing happens allow life to go on as if nothing has happened. Major earthquakes create a change in our consciousness. They expose layer after layer of the things that caused the earthquake. And then we can rebuild.
As we’ve said, faith is where there is a purpose, and that purpose is concealed. These days, it is neither easy nor simple to hold on to faith, we know, and part of the purpose of the rupture is for you to rediscover your faith. What is your faith? A rupture is perfectly okay. A rupture allows you to doubt everything you believed until now and as a result, to build something new.
Believing there is no God is also faith. There are people whose belief that there is no God burns in them as strongly as the person who does believe in God. Those who believe in something are blessed. It’s okay to ask questions, it’s okay to have doubts. It’s okay to forget about creation, God, divinity; to push them aside in moments of crisis. It’s okay to examine who and what they are.
What enables me to believe? What prevents me from believing? What do I believe? These are all good questions and we encourage you to ask them. Yael, the vehicle conveying the message, has also asked these questions, numerous times. This is a process…choosing to believe, and having faith that doesn’t depend on a thing. Understanding that everything has a purpose is a process, and possibly only your children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren will understand the purpose of these things. When the ground is quaking, it’s very difficult to see the purpose, and as such, all that remains is to believe or not to believe. We can’t choose for you.
We’d just like to suggest that faith means believing that there is a purpose, and that ultimately, that purpose is good. It’s not for you to know what the end is. We’re here to support you as you experience your own earthquake as you walk through the rupture that has formed in your life. Celebrate the rupture, be present in it, because it’s what will straighten you up and take you to a different place in your life. That’s the aim of the rupture, and of every rupture. That’s the purpose. We’re here with you to support you on your way.
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