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This issue comes after a few faith finding episodes
and discussions of belief. As well as seeing how belief
and faith intertwine.
Fate brings things together, but is belief in fate
a matter of faith? Perhaps. Fate brought me once again
to stumble across the web site of someone that ended
up being a neighbor of mine. Someone I had met twice
before, but never really had the opportunity to speak
with. The first time was at a Renaissance faire where
I was vending and they were just visiting. The second
was when their cat wandered into my house, and was promptly
treated as a stray and a member of the family… so much
so I was almost unwilling to give the cat back. Perhaps,
the cat's name of Karma made it so much more acceptable
for me to return it. But this third time we stumbled
across one another via the web and it was a great show
of how much the Internet brings us together. Perhaps
it was good time because it was also a time of soul
searching and lack of direction in many around us.
This made me sit back and wonder how much is fate,
and how much is faith. And just how strong my own faith
is. I've spent so much time recently acting as an activist,
trying to help all around me, and finding that I haven't
had the time to devote to my own path. Or at least I
originally felt that way. In a discussion I had with
others of my faith recently we determined that the only
people that seem to be able to get things done in their
lives are people that are already handling tons of things,
perhaps because they know how to organize their time
better, or perhaps they just know that important things
should be done, no matter how you have to do them. I
found that I could set aside a little time to do what
I need to do, and it seemed like that free time was
there all along, and just didn't know why I didn't utilize
it.
I found my ready belief that I had no time, meant that
I didn't have any. Yet the belief that I could free
up some time, made it very easy to do so. Just as the
belief that a ring of mushrooms in the back yard could
be a fairy circle, made me laugh and giddily accept
luck in my life and joy. Did it matter if there were
fairies or not? The joy was luck and happiness enough.
Take life as it comes to you.
Neal
Levin
CO-Editor-In-Chief
Best Wishes,
Morte
Portney
CO-Editor-In-Chief
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