A Little Bit of Faith

~ Gottfried

If you lose faith, you lose all. The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence. 

Faith is like WiFi. It’s invisible but it has the power to connect you to what you need. A faith that hasn’t been tested, can’t be trusted. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. 

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Funny thing about faith is that it goes a lot faster than it comes. Just because you met them at church doesn’t mean they’re the one. Demons go to church too. Knowledge is only half, faith is the other. 

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. Are you demonstrating faith if you don’t sound a little crazy. I reviewed your “Dress Like Your Miracle” challenge post and you definitely need to seek medical help expeditiously. 

Choose faith instead of fear and life will become a lot more fun. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized the Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. After all, faith without works is dead. 

Part time Christians can’t defeat full time devils. Belief is brain washing. Faith is about washing the brains. If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. I walk by faith, even when I cannot see. Pray big. Worry small. Laugh more. Stress less. 

Have faith, pigs fly!

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

58 thoughts on “A Little Bit of Faith”

  2. SMiLes Mr Gottfried A Beach Holds
    As Many Grains of Faith And More

    Of Human Views
    Of What Faith Even Is

    And That’s Just One Beach
    On One Planet Named Earth

    Close to the Gulf of Mexico
    Or America depending on

    Who We Ask Like the 45,000
    Plus Denominations of Christianity

    Where if We Interview All the Priests/
    Pastors and Congregants Just multiply

    The Top Figure By
    Each and Every

    View of Faith

    in the Pews Now
    Fascinating As Usual
    All of Existence is a

    Rorschach Test and Yes the
    Power of Belief Yes Faith in
    What Comes Next is Proven

    By the Placebo Effect Just like
    Real Voodoo By the Nocebo Effect

    in Believing That Bad Stuff Will Happen Next

    It’s Common Sense no Matter What Label Folks Use
    For The Essence of Faith Hope Belief and Love These Real

    Human Experiences of Existence Carry on Cross-Culturally

    As Most Anyone Who Responds in Soulful Free Verse Poetry With

    OPeN HeARTS And SoULS Comes NaturAlly to Feel and Sense For Now

    Essence Spreads
    Near and Far

    Labels may
    Change in Metaphor
    Cross CuLTuRaLLy Yet

    No One Religion Or Guru Owns
    The Essence of Reality PaSSinG

    Down From So Many Generations Now

    Again Ask Everyone in Every Pew Beyond
    The Christian Religion too And Beyond Organized
    Religion Yes and The Essence of Faith Hope Belief

    Yes LoVE iN Peace
    Unlimiting Colors

    Still To Come New

    For Now
    at Least

    As Far as my Faith
    Goes Every Grain of
    Sand on the Beach
    Washed Over By Waves
    Long Enough to Be After

    Diamonds

    in the Rough
    Before Again For Real

    Other than that It’s Impossible
    to Materially Reduce And Objectify

    Every Human Experience For Real

    Yet Those Who Do Actually Benefit

    From the Power of Faith Would

    Be Silly Not To Keep

    Taking
    Advantage
    For What Plays
    For Them Come What May..:)

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      1. “Only the 45k?”

        Hehe Mr Gottfried
        As You May Deduct i
        Was THAT KiD in School

        Who was Usually too Distracted
        to Pick up a Book to Study Yet
        Mind/SoUL/SPiRiT/HeART Melded

        With the Teacher’s

        Lecture’s
        Remembering
        Every Rote Point

        With My Hand Reached
        to the Stars to Become
        The Apple on HER Desk

        to the Chagrin and the
        Usual Hatred of the Sports
        Jocks and Such in Class Yes

        Anyway Back to Your Question
        on More Details About the 45 thousand
        Plus Dominations of Christianity Generally

        Speaking
        the Google
        Search AI Tool
        Provides More Detailed
        And Concise Answers than
        me Without All The FLoWoRDY Blooms

        “AI Overview

        Globally, there are over 45,000 Christian denominations, with many stemming from the Protestant Reformation.

        Here’s a breakdown:

        Major Branches:

        The main branches of Christianity include Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy.

        Protestantism:

        Within Protestantism, there are numerous denominations, including Anglicanism, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, and Pentecostal, among others.

        Growth of Denominations:

        Many denominations emerged after the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.

        Global Distribution:

        Christianity is practiced by over 2 billion people worldwide, and these followers are divided into various denominations.

        Nondenominational Churches:

        There are also a significant number of nondenominational or independent churches.”

        Off the Top of my Head there are actually 8 BiLLioN Grains of Sand in a Cubic
        Meter on the Beach Yep about as Many Humans With Different Views of Faith

        On Earth
        When You
        Do Like me
        And Interview
        them Globally As
        You Go in Poetic
        Response Naturally
        As Any Participant
        Anthropology Observer

        Will Take ‘Notes’ On the Subjects at Hand

        Yet of Course Human’s Views Change Most
        Every Now They Breathe as the Only Constant

        In Reality
        at Least
        Is Change
        And All the
        New Colors
        of Existence
        Human’s Continue
        to Basically Hallucinate and Co-Create

        Now i’m Swimming Deeper again Hehe Let’s

        Surface Again to the Ocean Top to See What
        Famous Theology Professor Fowler Has to Say
        About Faith With His Pyramid and Stages of Faith

        Sort of Like Maslow and His Trip to Human Authenticity

        From Wiki on the Topic too:

        “Stage 0 – “Primal or Undifferentiated” faith (birth to 2 years), is characterized by an early learning of the safety of their environment (i.e. warm, safe and secure vs. hurt, neglect and abuse). If consistent nurture is experienced, one will develop a sense of trust and safety about the universe and the divine. Conversely, negative experiences will cause one to develop distrust about the universe and the divine. Transition to the next stage begins with integration of thought and language which facilitates the use of symbols in speech and play.

        Stage 1 – “Intuitive-Projective” faith (ages of three to seven), is characterized by the psyche’s unprotected exposure to the Unconscious, and marked by a relative fluidity of thought patterns.[8] Religion is learned mainly through experiences, stories, images, and the people that one comes in contact with.

        Stage 2 – “Mythic-Literal” faith (mostly in school children), is characterized by persons have a strong belief in the justice and reciprocity of the universe, and their deities are almost always anthropomorphic. During this time metaphors and symbolic language are often misunderstood and are taken literally.

        Stage 3 – “Synthetic-Conventional” faith (arising in adolescence; aged 12 to adulthood), is characterized by conformity to authority and the religious development of a personal identity. Any conflicts with one’s beliefs are ignored at this stage due to the fear of threat from inconsistencies.

        Stage 4 – “Individuative-Reflective” faith (usually mid-twenties to late thirties), is a stage of angst and struggle. The individual takes personal responsibility for his or her beliefs and feelings. As one is able to reflect on one’s own beliefs, there is an openness to a new complexity of faith, but this also increases the awareness of conflicts in one’s belief.

        Stage 5 – “Conjunctive” faith (mid-life crisis), acknowledges paradox and transcendence relating reality behind the symbols of inherited systems. The individual resolves conflicts from previous stages by a complex understanding of a multidimensional, interdependent “truth” that cannot be explained by any particular statement.

        Stage 6 – “Universalizing” faith. The individual would treat any person with compassion as he or she views people as from a universal community, and should be treated with universal principles of love and justice.”

        According to ‘the Beatitudes’
        At Least The Story Book
        Jesus Skipped Past the

        First 5 And Went Straight

        to Number 6 God Yes Giving
        Sharing Caring Healing All With
        Most Respect and Least Harm
        With Empathic Compassionate Love FOR ALL

        As Children Naturally Do Before the ‘Terrible Two’s too

        Hehe

        Considering there are 5 Sextillion Grains of Sand On All
        The Earth’s Beaches also off the ‘Top of my Head’ Yet Still

        Fewer Than Stars Above And Considering Human and Other
        Views Are Always in Flux of Change Let’s Say There are Many

        Variations in
        Faith and

        of Course
        Languages
        oF LoVE iN Peace
        Varying Tween the
        Diversity of Human
        Kind and Less in Nature True

        In Other Words THere is No

        Such ‘Thing’

        As A Little Faith

        Beyond the Size of
        ‘God’ LoVE iS With SMiLes

        In Other Words Both Beyond Measure
        Faith God LoVE iN Peace Is that’s Four Yet

        ‘Look’

        Who’s
        Counting Hehe…

        only

        ‘me’..:)

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          1. “Me Too” How Brilliant
            Mr Gottfried With Usual

            Bantering Wit Yes You’ve

            Captured The Essence of

            Culture Religion and Tradition

            In Two Words

            Yes “Me too”

            For Without Common
            Shared Interests For
            Humans to Bond and Bind

            Over Humans Are More Apt
            To Weaken in Their Combined
            Strength of Will in Many Ways

            Being Human

            Indeed a Great
            Fall May Happen
            Without the “Me Too”

            Experience of Bonding and
            Binding Over Similar Symbols
            And Related Ideologies Of Course

            Like ‘The Word’

            Or Perhaps even
            Holy Moves of
            Dance Together and
            A Free Sacred Song Coming

            Without Much Analytical thought
            Reaching Yes the Holy Creative
            And Much More Productive

            Together Holy SPiRiT
            Coming From OPeN
            HeARTS Strengthening
            Within Will With Grace oF LoVE iN Peace
            Unconditional Empathic And Compassionate

            For All Balancing Free

            God Yes
            100 Percent

            Faith

            YeS Other Than
            That Be
            Seeing
            You Sooner
            Than Soon
            With SMiLeS AGAiN hehe..:)

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          5. Oh How Time
            Flies Particularly
            When Distance Space
            And Time Are Illusions

            Including
            This ‘Crude Matter’
            We NaMe Only Body

            When Actually in Vibrations
            Frequencies at Best RiSinG
            iN Synergies of Energies

            ‘Luminous
            Beings’ We aRe
            Entire Mult-i-Un-i-Verses
            GLoWinG Integral PArt WHole

            Eternal
            Fractals
            Now We aRe
            With SMiles
            iNDeeD See
            You Sooner Than

            Soon
            Mr Gottfried iN
            This PreSent NoW 🔜 New💫

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  7. No wonder the greatest book of all says; Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Fantastic one Gottfried🙏💝

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