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ugizralrite Registered User (1/9/04 8:55 am) Reply	Faith and Yoga An allegory : I took my friend Faith for a walk today. We had both been cooped up for too long. She suggested. "You know it's funny how God arranges the world. Everything seems well adapted to its role except mankind, whose role seems to be one of discontent." "Yes but Faith," I replied. "Don't you think that discontent is better than complacency? I mean the life of, say, a polar bear so well adapted to its environment. Yet what does it have to look forward too but more of the same year end and year out?" Faith laughed, letting out a cloud of mirthful vapor into the cold winter air. "It's true what you say, discontent breaks the cycle of complacency for better or for worse, depending on ones view point. But where is there peace in discontent? What is the resolution in the struggle?" "I don't know," I replied. "Maybe it's somewhere between complacency and discontent." "Or beyond maybe," Faith interrupted. "What if there is nothing to be complacent or discontented about?" I stopped in my tracks bewildered. "Nothing to be discontented about?" I thought. "Faith must have been cooped up for too long." "Faith, have you examined the world lately? It's a mess, a nightmare." Faith looked down at the snow and scrunched her feet against the icy graininess. Her eyes welled up with tears. A memory perhaps? We walked on for a bit and Faith regained her composure. "I was thinking of my father and what he told me when I asked the same question." "My dear," He had said. "Why do you think you were born? Why do you think your mother and I conceived you? We did because we knew we could provide you with safety and happiness. Remember, Faith, that your heavenly Father's resources are without limit. The things about the world and yourself that are causing discontent, these are growing pains, and you will outgrow them. Look at me Faith. Look into your father's eyes. I promise to you that wherever you go and whatever you experience, I will always see you through. Even when I am not in your sight, my being is your being. We are one flesh, and my protection is forever within you." "From that day forward I have felt at home in the world. Discontent fled and never again have I been complacent in the face of the limitless possibilities my father promised." We turned and walked back toward the village with the sun and wind at our backs. "Complacency is a death of sorts." I was thinking. "And discontent is a living hell. Maybe Faith's words are what I needed to hear. I'll have to dwell on them." When we reached her house I turned and took Faith's hands in mine. "You know Faith, I don't always understand you, but I always feel comfort in your companionship. Let's do this more often." Faith smiled fondly as she closed her front door, and I returned to my lodgings feeling renewed. Edited by: ugizralrite at: 1/9/04 10:01 pm
bsjones Registered User (1/12/04 2:42 pm) Reply ezSupporter	Re: Faith and Yoga helluva good story!
ugizralrite Registered User (1/12/04 3:34 pm) Reply	Re: Faith and Yoga Thank you bsjones.
SerenityNow7 Registered User (1/14/04 9:19 pm) Reply	Re: Faith and Yoga I like it

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