Every time we repost this article it stirs up a lot of emotions from people who believe they are helpless.
We aren’t trying to make people angry, but this is how we feel and what we believe.
And so, here it is again…
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.
There seems to be an effort to rebrand or reintroduce Jesus these days, we thought we would help out, introducing another narrative found in Japan.
Ok, the story goes like this: in a small village, called Shingo in the north of Japan is where Jesus Christ lived and eventually died, leaving behind his descendants.
According to the story, Jesus travelled to Japan at the age of 21 to study theology, spent 12 years in the country during a period that's not written about in the New Testament.
After returning to Jerusalem, and getting into trouble with the Romans, he somehow convinced his younger brother Isukiri to face the trial and crucifixion.
As Jesus skips town, no one notices it’s a different person and his younger brother dies on the cross instead.
Jesus then fled back to Japan, which involved a four year journey spanning 6,000 miles.
He became known as Daitenku Taro Jurai to locals, and lived in Shingo in exile, growing garlic.
Jesus fell in love with a farmer's daughter called Miyuko, and they married and had three children.
He is believed to have died in the village at the age of 106.
