Faith can move mountains.
With faith anything is possible, okay, but faith in what, in who?
If they mean faith in your own abilities, in the person you want to become, we would agree.
But sermons on faith usually have little to do with self empowerment.
We find it troubling that people actually believe they are nothing without some higher power pulling the strings.
It's amazing how people are willing to believe in something invisible but not in the things that are right in front of them.
Many choose to ignore it and believe they are nothing without divine intervention.
As Pagans we believe in self empowerment, we are responsible for our own lives, we are at the helm, captains of our own journey, surrendering our power to no one.
We are told to trust the unseen, have absolute faith and hand over all personal power because God is in control of everything.
If we surrender and allow God to work his miracles, everything
will be just fine.
Having faith in things unproven can be a slippery slope, it's pretending to know things you just don't know.
Telling us that a higher power is in complete control is difficult to understand, where does that leave us?
How do we grow or get stronger if we think someone or something is to to carry us every time we experience life's struggles?
There were only one set of footprints in the sand, in the famous poem we are told, "During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."
We don't need to be carried, we need to learn our strengths and purpose, gain confidence and even though there will be people during your lifetime that will assist and befriend you, those footprints in the sand are yours and yours alone.
The footprints are yours because you decided to get up and walk, because you believe in yourself.
When people are taught that they are helpless, that they are nothing without some unseen higher power, they remain prisoners in their own doubts.
We will keep reminding people that you have the power within you.
As you learn to believe in yourself and reconnect with nature you reconnect with yourself, because we are one with nature.
It is only then you can grow in self worth and lose the chains of guilt, hate, anger and uncertainty.
