The First Seed of Faith

There is little to do about things when all faith is lost. It takes great faith to move mountains, it is true, but when one does has faith, anything becomes possible. By “faith” I refer to faith in the force behind everything, “the universal consciousness” as I call it, the natural intelligence that exists within everything, animate or inanimate.

This force makes anything possible if you hold the belief in the face of every opposition or challenge. It is this faith that now sustains me and gives me great hope for life, for me and for others who share this awareness and faith. It is decidedly not a religious faith because for me it is something beyond the tenets of individual religions, yet it unites them all in its essence.

I have known periods of doubt, of faithlessness, for many years yet I now have an armoury of tools of faith that I have acquired through repeated experience of its benevolence since opening my heart and mind to the possibility of its existence in the search for what was missing in my life. There is no longer much that perturbs me for very long as a result. Soon fears are swept aside by a tidal wave of faith and trust in that loving force that sits behind everything and always acts in my best interests.

I don’t know how or why I began to believe in this force. It probably dates back to an earlier time in my life when I meditated regularly and one day I was walking in the neighbourhood after a meditation and I suddenly felt at one with everything around me for just a split second. At that moment I felt I was part of everything and that brought to mind an awareness of something I cannot really put into words, a sort of collective presence which I now know as the universal consciousness.

It was many years later that I really opened my eyes to it but that point, I suspect, was the beginning for me. Once I opened my heart to the possibility of it, I began to see signs of it everywhere until eventually I felt its infinite love and benevolence. Now I feel it was almost a pity if not foolish to have doubted it, such is the strength of my faith and trust in this unspeakably awesome force of nature, yet I am only human and it is easy to miss all those signs in one’s struggle to navigate the torrents of life. I am so glad I am now awake to it and therefore able to experience peace and joy almost all the time.