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This is a universal human trait. But faith, true faith, does not hold on to any specific illusion of the future. Human faith must be child-like trust, and in that trust the individual human must forgo their own illusions about what should or should not be. Sublime faith is made ever more pure by the constant relinquishing of your own investment in the outcome. The Master said constantly at the end of his prayers, "Nevertheless, not my will but your will be done Father". This is the epitome of human wisdom. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2004-09-12-Hope_and_Illusion#Lesson Ham]
This is a universal human trait. But faith, true faith, does not hold on to any specific illusion of the future. Human faith must be child-like trust, and in that trust the individual human must forgo their own illusions about what should or should not be. Sublime faith is made ever more pure by the constant relinquishing of your own investment in the outcome. The Master said constantly at the end of his prayers, "Nevertheless, not my will but your will be done Father". This is the epitome of human wisdom. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2004-09-12-Hope_and_Illusion#Lesson Ham]
==Footprints==
When you walk the shoreline, it is a path that goes at the edge of the water where water and land meet. The entire human life is a course that follows the shoreline where you are constantly grappling with contrasts such as truth and error, good and evil, light and darkness. Upon the sand are many footprints. These are the faith footprints of many who have traveled before you. Few of these walk directly away from the water's edge, and few walk directly into the water's depths. The majority pass between, making their way along the shore.
Every one of you imprints the human reality with your own steps. Each of you carve a path to God but does so among the multitude of footprints of those who have gone before you. Some wander wildly. Some the pace is so strong that to follow, you run to meet their footprints. The entire field of footprints display the range of humankind's approach to truth, beauty, and goodness, the individual inclinations to lean toward land or toward water. At times it is tempting to follow the footprints of another's faith, for the trail is a guide. To recognize that another's path was chosen for a reason is encouraging to one of uncertainty. There is inherent trust in a prior course taken, but as you progress in your journey, you begin to awaken to the understanding that the destination, while equal to all, may be reached in multiple courses.
The adventurous one is willing to also tread upon the sands unblemished, to venture in this field of faith where others have yet to go, to discover truths yet unrevealed. With some, these new pathways become pivotal altering forces in the religious viewpoint of mankind. Others will follow in their footprints and discover these new relationships to God. A few will venture into untrammeled areas and fall prey to the temptation of counting their path as highly special, apart from and better than the trampled pathways of the many who travel to God as well. Though an interval of time transpires wherein the spur is cherished within the divine family and the mechanisms inherent in celestial community, every soul comes to realize that, while every path is unique, all remain within a margin of similarity. The diversity of travel, when viewed from the perspective of Paradise is really only a small, narrow margin of ascent. All humankind walks together in faith to God. Close in as you are upon this journey, the variance among your fellows appears to be a wide swath of approach. Further back from the heights of eternity, there is little difference between your trail and the trail of another.
Continue to recognize the faith footprints of your fellows, to be willing and curious to discover the variations in the course they took as they sought the truth, to be willing likewise in your journey, when the footprints in front of you seem to dwindle to none, to go forward in faith and break a new trail, for there will be those behind you curious as to your seeking and will join your adventure creating their own variances, all contributing to the composite portrayal of the human soul in collective search for the Source of all. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2004-03-07-Magisterial_Son#Lesson Evanson]
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