Faith and a Higher Power

One thing I will never do while I help you on your journey to your Greatest Version is push my religious or spiritual belief onto you.  We all are individual people and have the right to believe or not believe on what is out there beyond the physical and logical realms.  Having said that, I know that without my own belief in a higher power, my journey would have not taken that path it has.  You can still reach your greatest version without adopting this into your life, but I know from personal experience that it can help immensely.

After my life changing event happened in the fall of 2018, I could no longer see any hope or future in the physical world for me and my situation.  So, the only thing I could do was look up to the sky and ask God for help.  The initial step of this was a very emotional and humbling, as I will show you.  When I was at work or around other people, I would hold myself together and keep a straight face and persona.  But once I walked into my house after work, I would literally drop to my knees, look up and start to cry as I prayed with all my heart to the heavens. 

I remember saying things like:

“God why am the way I am?  Why do I destroy the good things in my life?”

“Jesus please don’t forsake me!  Why have you forsaken me?”

“God please give me a miracle, as I cannot go on as things are!”

I did this daily, sometimes for 2 to 3 hours straight.  I didn’t know a human could cry that much or have that many tears that they could shed.  I even found a guided prayer online that was titled “An Instant Miracle.”  I would listen to that prayer over and over as I pleaded to God to fix what I felt I had broken.  Did the miracle happen?  No, it did not.

I am not writing this to make others feel empathy for me, as I know that was a part of the step that was needed for me.  As I said, the miracle did not happen, but what did happen was that I found strength and hope that at that time I could not find within me.  You see, when we start looking to a higher power for help, not only does it give us that place to let out the feelings and wants we have, but it also gives us a sense of comfort that cannot always be found in the physical world.  A belief that anything is possible because of divine order and timing can be the biggest boost when we are at our lowest points in life.

What this higher belief also does is provide that first step that needs to be taken as you start climbing that mountain, where the summit is your Greatest Version.  Even though the miracles did not come, I know that because I made it through the initial storm, I was now standing on solid ground and it was time for me to look inward.  Divine timing is just that, timing not on our clock, but that of the higher power.  I knew this was the sign that I did have a purpose and opportunity of becoming a better person, because at the end of the day, I was still here.  So, in some ways, a miracle did happen.  Not the one I was asking for, but rather the miracle that I was able to walk through the hurricane and come out on the other side alive.

As I started taking those inward steps (which I discuss in other posts), I continued to embrace faith and the higher power.  In addition to that, I started looking at God, a Higher Power and the Universe in a much more holistic way.  We are made of stardust, which is what the Universe is made up of.  God makes us in his image, so we are a part of him.  In a sense, God is the Universe, and the Universe is God.  Once again, I want to emphasize that these are my beliefs and you should embrace the Higher Power in any way you choose to.  But the more I trusted in God and the Universe that all things happen in divine order, I knew my life path was on the right course.  I declared to myself (which I actually heard on a guided mediation), “I am exactly where I need to be at this point in my life!”.

Having this mindset keeps giving me motivation and assurance that I will continue to better the person I am.  That I will make it to the end of that path where I finally meet and shake hands with what I call the A+ Francis.  That meeting will be a glorious one, as every better version of Francis I have met along my journey has brought peace and happiness to my life.  And Faith and the Higher Power continues to provide me with the strength to push forward.  You will also find this strength as the Higher Power loves all and wants you to succeed.  And succeed you will!