I am a Christian who prays and believes in her faith. I pray all the time even if there isn’t a reason, but I do especially when there is a reason. My faith has been tested, but whose faith hasn’t been tested? However, one specific time my faith was truly tested. I felt lost and scared because I doubted my faith and my belief in God. In that moment I didn’t feel like I truly belonged. It all started when my best friend was having several heart issues during surgeries that caused him to flat line each time. Through all these surgeries my faith was strong, but each time it got just a little weaker. I had faith that everything would be okay and that God was watching over him. For a while they didn’t even test his heart to find out the problem causing the flat lines, but then they decided to finally test it and they found out that his heart was filling with blood. They pumped out the blood and said he would be fine now, but just to watch it. Not even a week later his heart had filled with blood again in one chamber they said. However, they told him wrong, and when he got home they called and told him two of his …show more content…
He had text me right before hand and said goodbye, and sadly I let that thought get to me. All I could think about was this surgery is going to be the time when he will have been hit by too many stones, and that I would lose my best friend. I text my church friends about this hoping for them to give me some of my faith back somehow, but my faith was so weak. I had almost completely fallen into the dark hole of negativity. I had almost completely given up on praying because I didn’t know how he would beat the odds, how his heart would be able to make it through it, and how he had gotten lucky way too many times already. Without my faith I was lost in my sadness, and I felt like I didn’t deserve to belong in this situation. No one at my age deserves to be in a situation like
Losing the Faith? During difficult times, many people turn to their faith in order to help themselves deal with the situation that they are going through. However, difficult times may cause people to stray away from their faith or forget about their beliefs all together. In his novel, Night, Elie Wiesel describes in detail his time spent in a concentration camp.
When he underwent that surgery, I was afraid of what would happen, but hoping for the best kept me optimistic. Simply applying hope to my thought process changed my outlook on the situation. To tie my personal connections back to the book, I am going to end with this profound and meaningful
but he did have a small area of blood coming from around his mouth and was obviously deceased. Sgt. Bowden was notified of the incident. MEMS unit #619 responded to check for signs of life on Mr. Davis and medical instruments indicated a shallow arrhythmia. MEMS began CPR on Mr. Davis and
I don’t know what he was thinking, but I would bet money that some of his patients died from his bleeding. You’re supposed to replace the blood loss, not take more
But I find some comfort in faith, and I found it in those days after my friends had been shot up. Ever since I had gone through BUD/S (SEAL training), I’d carried a Bible with me. I hadn’t read it all that much, but it had always been with me. Now I opened it and read some of the passages. I skipped around, read a bit, skipped around some more.
How do you react when your faith is being tested? For Wiesel in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader witnesses the loss of faith. The response of Wiesel faith was effected by the surrounding he was faced with. The foundation of his beliefs was questioned by the events he saw. Thus as time passed more individuals began to lose their religious behaviours.
Typically for those who practice religion, it is easy to convince yourself that God is watching over you when all is well. The challenge however comes when all is lost. Thoughts of ,”How could God let this happen if he is a loving God?”, and “Why my people out of the billions of people on this earth?” come to mind and really make you ponder whether your faith matters. Many men lost their faith and then proceeded to lose their lives. Namely the ,”Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection.
The role of faith in people’s personal journey can be seen as multifaceted. Ultimately, it depends on what one chooses to put faith into. If we are being honest, growing up, faith was not a big part of my home life. My family is Catholic, and I was baptized Catholic- but outside of that, we never practiced our faith.
Have you ever had trouble finding faith in a difficult situation? In the book " Life as We Knew It" by Susan Pfeffer, the author portrays many different themes throughout the book. In the book, the theme is to always have faith and hope even in the hardest of times. One way the author portrays the theme in the reoccurrence of unfortunate events. Throughout the story, Miranda, the main character, is having trouble finding hope in the troubling times that not only her but everyone is going through.
Few months after that I found out that my mother couldn’t find a place in my hometown and ended up leaving. I had many issues during these times and was super confused about why this was happening to me. I have to say that I doubted God and was angry on why He would let this happen to me. For a while, I wanted to give up on my faith like I’m sure many Jews wanted to when they were in the Holocaust. Eventually, when I got myself pulled together I started using what I have been through to help others.
Paul Tillich was an American theologian and philosopher who born on August 20, 1886, in Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Germany. Tillich was a deep thinker and very compassionate where faith was concerned, and he used different avenues to describe faith and belief to grasp the attention of readers, other theologians, and believers of faith. According to author Wendy Morrison from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Tillich's understanding of faith differs from the common understanding of faith, as he relayed that message in Dynamics of Faith, where he states that there is hardly a word in the religious language, both theological and popular, that is subject to more understandings, distortions and questionable definitions than the word "faith" (Morrison, 2011).
I can relate to having faith because I often put trust or confidence into someone or something when I’m having a struggle in my life. When I was younger I didn’t really know God. Once I found out about God, I immediately learned having faith in him is one of the most important decisions anyone can ever make. Once I made that decision to maintain my trust in him I noticed that many things started to fall my way. In the novel, Eliezar also questioned his faith several times but always turned back to putting his trust in God because he knew what was right.
and I waited for the results. When we received the diagnostic it was a better result than what we had anticipated. So everyday I prayed for her to get through it and eventually she did. So on that day, I began to realize the power of prayer and asking for God’s help.
I could not take it anymore. On cold February evening, I attended a Christian Bible study where I met new friends. They prayed for me and made me feel closer to God. I remember thinking that night, ‘these are the kind of people I want to be surrounded by’.
Attending church Sunday after Sunday, I would always hear different sermons preached on faith, until recently when it was time for me to go through a process of having faith it was then that I realized I heard about faith and I knew the scripture, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. My struggle with having faith was I believed but still worried and allowed my circumstances too bring on stress. Matthew 6:25 has helped me though my times of struggling with faith. God has used different trials and tribulations to perfect the gift of faith that he has entrusted me with.