Faith in real time

A bite out of life for you to grow healthy.

Today’s LifeBite is a real story that just happened to me as I walked past by a Sacred Place of Prayer close to my house. It’s about how many steps does your Faith take. Live and learn!

I was walking leisurely back home when I passed in front of a Sacred Place of Prayer close to where I live. The type of place is not important, as all Sacred Places are the home of God, just as each of us is also home to the Divine. It was Friday, and the devotees were  just  coming out of their prayers.

–“Oh, great!” I thought.”Now I will be showered by devotion.”

I stood by to let the stream of devotees pass, and indeed I could feel the showers of faith and devotion spreading from them like a wave of fresh, warm peace and Oneness.

But that wave was broken frequently by those who, having given three steps out of the Place of Prayer, were already fretting and worrying. Their eyebrows were wrinkled. Their faces worried. They were accelerating their pace and irritated that I was blocking their path.

This got me thinking about how long do we carry our faith. I thought about the people in my local churches, who go out of the mass and right in front of the holy place begin to gossip and spread negativity. I got to think about my own meditation practice. How long after I rse from the meditation cushion does my Inner Peace last?

There were plenty of devotees that stopped to let me pass and smiled. In their smile I felt welcome and One with them. They had carried their faith as they crossed the gates our of their Place of Prayer. But there were others who were already trapped in their habitual expressions of worry, irritation, negative expectations and defensiveness.

How may steps does your faith take as you leave your place or time of prayer or meditation? Does it accompany you one step? Three steps? Five steps? Five minutes? Ten minutes? An hour? Half a day? A day? The entire week?

It dawned on me that our Faith, whatever shape it takes, requires time for prayer, ceremony and meditation in order to fuel us with Divine Energy for the rest of the day or week. But many of us seem to forget about that holy fuel and go on in the “business as usual” ways of our ego and our fear.

So I call you to join me in a campaign to increase the number of steps that our Faith takes. Every day I want to keep my Faith walking longer with me, to fuel me for the rest of the day and week. I want my Faith alive in real time. And the only real time we have is NOW! Ah! But now extends every day into eternity.

How about you? I’d love to hear from you.

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Maria Mar’s LifeBites are snapshots of life as she encounters it. She tells the story of an experience she had or witnessed and then reveals the hidden meaning, lessons and possibilities in that real-life story so that you can take a bit of life and grow healthy. Live and learn!

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