Chris' Christian Blog

January 14, 2019

"January 14, 2019" 

"Prompt: What is faith?"

Faith as defined by the word of God is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen", Hebrews 11: 1. In other words faith is the proof that God exists. It is believing in things we cannot see. For example scientists frown at faith. Yet scientists have much faith. They place their faith in atoms, which they cannot see. Ask a scientist to show you an atom! They have strong faith that atoms exist. They can harness the power of these unseen forces yet they cannot prove that they exist by showing you one. I know God exists because I can see His power all around me yet I have never met God personally. I have never laid eyes on Him. I know He exists because my heart tells me He exists. Faith does not need proof. If there were concrete proof then faith would not be possible. Faith believes in the unseen. Seeing is no longer faith.

"Prompt: There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison
Let this quote inspire your blog entry."

This sounds a lot like a matter of faith. Faith is about things unknown. We cannot prove them but by faith we know they are real. Today I begin my last semester as an undergraduate at Marshall University. By faith I believe I can accomplish this. The doors of opportunity are open and now I will have the choice of either stepping through them into a strange and unknown world of new learning or I can balk. I think I'll step through them. I love to learn and I think it will be challenging and fun. Hopefully my blog will not suffer too badly. It's 4: 30AM and I am doing today's entry. Perhaps I can make this a daily habit or I can try to do my blog from the college library. A door of opportunity awaits and I must step through. It has known elements of the classroom and campus life. It also has the unknown elements of new subjects and new professors. So it has both known and unknown as does all of life. Our futures are always unknown. We get hints about what the future may hold in store but until we are actually in the present we only have doors of opportunity. My future and your future await!

} "Prompt:
“Anytime you get two people in a room, who disagree about anything, the time the day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.”
Aaron Sorkin
Does a situation like what Aaron Sorkin describes upset you or do you take it as a chance to write it in a scene or a story? For that matter, can you think of similar negative situations you have used or plan to use in your writing?"

I really don't use situations around me to write stories although I can see the value in doing so. Most of my writing is based on something I have learned. If it were not I would have no basis from which to write. You have to experience something in order to write about it but the situation described seems petty. People will indeed disagree over simple things. I just try to stay away from such disagreements and defuse them before they become obstacles. Love should be the hallmark oof all of our lives. Love does not argue or get its hackles up over petty stuff. It gets along and puts the needs of others ahead of its own needs. Love sees the other side of the story. It does not have to have its own way. Avoid the petty. Avoid the drama. Drama is for Hollywood and Broadway. I have no place for it in my life.