Faith like potatoes, persistance like rhuabarb...

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

     Ok, so I've never seen the actual movie faith like potatoes, but I've been told that it was a great movie. But seriously, faith for whatever reason is whats been on my mine. When I was a kid, my grandma always told me and my brothers that she hoped that someday that one of us would be a minister, well I'm not a minister, but I think this blog is my way of meeting grandma half way. Grandma had and amazing faith, my grandpa passed around Christmas when I was about 10 years old, and my grandma around Easter. Yeah I know not exactly the best way to celebrate the holidays, but through all that, I never saw my grandma lose faith. I still remember going to see her and listening to the church service on cassette tape since she couldn't attend in person, or saying prayers before meals and bed. Both grandma and grandpa had such an unshaken faith, it was moving, like soul moving.

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for. ³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
-Hebrews 11:1-3

     Faith is absolutely amazing, it can move mountains and part seas. Sometimes I think that if people had a little more faith in life that things would go a lot easier,  and maybe even a little more at peace. Like I said faith can move mountains and that's how I'm going to look at it from now on. I've seriously had a lack of faith in things for awhile, I've had the attitude that nothing will work out for me, money, girls, life, everything. I kept praying for things to get better but they never did I lost faith and never even tried to find it again. The more things went wrong the less faith I had. Thinking about it, it really sucked. I'm actually ashamed that I let it get as bad as I did.

When he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord.

-James 1:6-7

     I don't know what got into my head the other day, but while I was sitting in the college book store drinking an Americana talking to my friend that worked there, I read a magnet (yes a fridge magnet) that had the Hebrews verse posted above on it. Something changed in my head, I decided that I need to change things, I need to have more faith and maybe things will start to look up for me. I've given this a little thought and a trial run and sure as shit, things seem to be better, I've gotten more over time at work and it looks like I could get myself out of debt soon, I'm getting closer to getting my motorcycle, I met a girl whose cool beans (even though she don't know I like her) after a little prayer and allot of faith I think I'm gonna stick to this new way of thinking. Hope you all have a great day.

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

-Matthew 21:22