have a little faith.

      The realization has come to me that we are a generation that has lost alot of FAITH and TRUST in God. Now hear me out. How many times in the past year have you found yourself down, frustrated, confused, lost and disheartened because you have no answers. No matter where you look and go, your answers are no where to be found. Have you ever thought that maybe you need to take a leap of faith and walk hand in hand with God, and MAYBE, just maybe he will lead you to your answers along the way. That if you did not leap that you would be at a stand-still. That maybe God needed you to leap so he could properly lead you??
       I know it seems so foreign to us all because in a matter of 1.3seconds we can look up any answer to our problems on google. But for the questions of the heart, for the matters of eternity, it is not always that easy. In fact it is usually the exact opposite of that. It is hard. It is draining. and it is out right frustrating. But I feel like GAINING faith takes a little faith and trust, that you will get the faith that you are looking for.
      Take this example. I don't know about you, but whenever I am down or mad, I sometimes FORCE myself to smile. I make myself. And 9 out of 10 times it makes me laugh because I am amazed at how dumb I feel. But then a real smile comes out of my laughter. And then some since of happiness arises. I feel like that is how faith can sometimes work. We lose it a lot, and we sulk and linger in our negativity and anger that our faith has "disappeared", and in return we never gain it back, because we are not actually looking for it again. I think sometimes you need to take a leap of faith and start believing that you will find your faith again. 
      It all seems so silly, but for the past month I have been sulking. I have been upset. I have been UBER emotional, and not pleasant to be around. But this past week I made it my mission to find my desire again. To LEAP and find the faith that I will feel again. And I do. God is rocking my world again. I mean it all makes sense. In the bible people were not 100% or even 20% sure that Jesus was the Messiah, but they allowed themselves to HAVE FAITH. They leaped and found out the truth, that Jesus was the real deal. And look at Mary, Jesus' mom. She had no idea what was going to happen to her, but she had faith and was like yea God do with me as you want. And BAM we have Jesus!! Its crazy.
      So I leave you with Matthew 17:14-21...




" When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”  Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”


     I pray that you will have FAITH. That whatever is in your path, you will TRUST that God is there. John Kavanaugh once asked Mother Theresa to pray for Clarity for him and she told him: " No, I will not do that" when asked why she responded: " Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of. I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God."