Faith in What?

Did you know that every human has all the faith required? You can’t actually get more faith. You’re hardwired for it, and one hundred percent of faith lives inside you all the time. Actually, you use faith all the time.

The point about faith is your awareness of it, not whether you have it or not. How aware are you of your faith? Aware enough to know where you’re placing it?

Faith is a neutral energy much like electricity. Electricity doesn’t mind if it dries your hair or electrocutes you. Faith too. You get a choice about where you place your faith.

If you want to place your faith in what you fear, your faith will support what you fear.

If you want to place your faith in what you love, your faith will support what you love.

Faith works, dear one. All the time. It just depends upon where you place it.

Estranged

Seeds IX, 33

Seed: Estranged

Estranged is an old-fashioned word. I remember vaguely hearing it used to describe people who were having trouble in a marriage at one long ago point in my life. Now we are not so delicate about it.

What prompted me to look at this word is something Anne Morrow Lindberg wrote, “When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others.” Do you ever feel estranged? Estrange is rooted in the word strange which means outside.

One of the gifts of being human is one’s own perspective. The idea is that no one can perceive the world in quite the same way you do. The secret of perception is to look at the world from inside your Self to the outer world, and not from the estranged perspective, or outside in.

Whenever you feel estranged, it could be that you are taking the outside in view instead of the inside out one. Take a moment to go within and find your center, then look again. Things will likely be less strange.

Be serene,

Dr. Susan Corso

Seeds are remarkable gifts. Sown in consciousness, they bring you to the most important part of your being—your Divine Spark.

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Theology, Relilgion, Spirituality

A Seeds reader wrote to ask me the difference between theology and religion. I knew he was looking for a pithy answer. My reply appears below:

Theology is study about God.
Religion is practice leading to God.
Spirituality is being God.

Ever thought about the differences amongst these three? In seminary, we “did theology.” It was a way to learn about God. Anything that’s an “-ology” is a study. Not the same as a genuine relationship with God.

Religion comes from Latin roots meaning “to link again.” Can you see the English word ligament in there? Religion is a tradition of practices. Some prefer their hereditary traditions; others prefer to release their inheritance. With religion, you get a relationship with a tradition, not always with God.

Spirituality is knowing that you are God, and being God in everyday situations. It is the germ, the core, the essence of religion and theology. Spirituality lets you “become what you are,” to quote Goethe.