Faith Is a Place

I discovered, with God's help of course that Faith is a place we live and breathe, a noun if you will, not an adjective.  That straying form this highly regarded area is not only dangerous but dark as well.  Mostly because we are surreptitiously tempted the moment we step a way from 'It.'  Not just tempted but find also that doubt is chronically lurking around every insidious corner waiting for the moment to catch me off guard and vulnerably, naively, I can do this myself,  alone.  I recall a book I read early on in my faith that highlighted just such devilish attributes.  “This Present Darkness,” it was the first time I had ever looked at spiritual warfare in such a blatant way.  I reveled in the thought that Heaven was about His Father’s business on our behalf.  I was undoubtedly comforted by such a fact.  It was also the first time I began to look at Faith as a place of comfort and wow, choice.  I let go after reading Frank Peretti, of the controlled concept that my universe was one dimensional, C. S. Lewis taught me a thing or two about that as well.  God was with me through those early days, especially after growing up in such a mystical environment.  I truly didn’t know if I was hither, thither, or yon, yea, mostly yon, ha-ha.  Most of you who know me now, know me because of the writers who taught me the art of being and living in a Faith-based locale, otherwise I would be existing in a cave somewhere in South America shouting profanities from the mountain tops.  Let go and let God an old friend used to remind me and I still hear those words floating around in my brain.  Still hear her say it in my ears.  God I know that you know that I know that you know, that is Faith in a nut-shell for me.  And… if I can do anything to help with this ‘greater understanding,’ please just let me know!!!  To choose to choose says lifer herself and so I will.  I choose to live in my Faith in Christ.  Thank you God for this!