It's terribly important to understand that a believer is a normal person. Faith is the mark of normality. A persistently negative and cynical attitude is a mark of emotional illness. Birds were designed to fly. The air under the wings of a bird is the natural habitat of the flying fowl.
Water is the natural habitat of the fish.
Faith is the native air to be breathed in and out by human beings.
It is normal to have faith. It is abnormal to be cynical. Therefore you welcome all stimuli that would encourage you to have faith. Reject all negative forces that would destroy faith and replace it with unbelief.
When you practice positive belief, you are more controlled by positive emotions - love, joy, courage, faith, enthusiasm.
These are the qualities of an emotionally healthy person. Persons who are not breathing the natural air of faith, but are breathing the polluted air of doubt and unbelief, are quickly susceptible to lower morality. They are quickly consumed by negative emotions - all of which are measured and marked as symptoms of something less than true wholeness and health as a human being.
You were created to be a believer!
Faith is finding your native air.
That's why you feel so great when you're optimistic!
Thank You, Father, for causing me to be a normal, healthy human being by motivating me to walk the walk of faith.
So when we use the Steps, 3, 10, 11 and 12, we have taken our little twisted souls up to God, and He has untwisted them, so that we can live as others, as close to Normal as others do....takes a lot of work, but the work is more than welcome in my life.... Faith works if you work it!
