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[…]","datePublished":"2022-12-19","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/give-more\/god\/","about":["Give More"],"wordCount":1259,"articleBody":"It’s complicated…God is lifeAsk for what you want.God is love, love is blind, Ray Charles is blind… but that does not make him God.Lessons repeat –\u00a0You will be presented with the same lesson over and over again, until you learn it.I’m no expert on God, but I do believe there is a higher power.\u00a0 Some kind of order to the universe.\u00a0 Some kind of greater force for right and wrong, for good and bad, for growth and death. Do I think it was one man, a prophet, or another man, a saviour?\u00a0 No, that doesn’t make sense to me. Lets start with a fundamental question: Why is the prophet always a man?\u00a0 The women I know are just as wise, even more caring, and much more insightful than most of the men I know.\u00a0 So how does that make any sense? So if I don’t believe in prophets, what do I believe?\u00a0 The one thing I do believe is God is life, and people just need to try to define that in a way that makes sense to them.\u00a0 Let me expand a little on that thought. God is life because everything around us is a gift, and in it’s own way a miracle.\u00a0 Sure, there are scientific explanations for some things, and there are many unknowns for others, but not everything can be explained.\u00a0 So if it can’t be explained, we try to simplify.\u00a0 We try to dumb things down, separate things into definable buckets that we can talk about so we can share things through stories. That’s a good thing.\u00a0 Stories make up the fabric of our culture, our shared beliefs and existence.\u00a0 Stories about why seasons change, why drought and famine happen, and what is good versus evil.\u00a0 People look for leaders to explain these things, to give them something to do about them, and to provide hope.\u00a0 All good things. What doesn’t makes sense to me is why we should take something someone said a thousand years ago, that was written down a hundred years later, and those statements should govern our lives today.\u00a0 We are more advanced than that.\u00a0 We have new knowledge they didn’t have back then, and while those old lessons served their purpose at the time, we should question them today.\u00a0 There might be a better answer, a better approach, a better way to do something. That said, we shouldn’t dismiss all the lessons from a thousand years ago out of hand.\u00a0 There is tremendous value\u00a0in what those lessons hold about God and behaviour, and refined into different religions.\u00a0 Those stories were told to those who were poor, illiterate, and needed guidance.\u00a0 They helped create order, provided meaning, and gave structure to people’s lives.\u00a0 They helped form the societies we live in, tell us what is right and wrong, and who is good and bad. From that point of view, God and religion served a great purpose.\u00a0 We should take from the past the lessons that matter and bring them forward to today.\u00a0 There are amazing lessons to be learned in all religions, whether that is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or even science.\u00a0 Whatever it is, every one of those religions has something of value, but not at the exclusion of others. But drawing conclusions from religion and saying one way to do something is right, one way is wrong, may be drawing conclusions between relationships that aren’t really there.\u00a0 The best example I can think of for not drawing conclusions and relationships between things is as follows: God is love.\u00a0 Love is blind.\u00a0 Ray Charles is blind… but that does not make him God.\u00a0 Just ask yourself what other conclusions are you drawing about God and religion, and do they really make sense when you put them in a perspective like that. One of the biggest lessons about God I’ve learned was articulated by a most unlikely of people, Jim Carey.\u00a0 At a commencement speech he gave he talks about his childhood, and how he asked for bike that his family couldn’t afford.\u00a0 The next week, that bike appeared for him.\u00a0 A friend put his name in a draw, and he won the bike.\u00a0 That was the first of many things he manifested in his life.\u00a0 Another example is he wrote himself a check for 10 million dollars with a date 5 years in the future, and carried it around with him in his wallet.\u00a0 Just before the date on the check came due, he got paid 10 million dollars for a role in a film.\u00a0 He gives simple examples about working hard, manifesting what he wanted, and how life gave it to him. It’s amazing, by asking for what you want, and putting it out into the world, the world will align to get you what you want. It’s so strange, but it’s worked for me too!\u00a0 For example, when we were frustrated by the home-buying process in 2011, I narrowed it down to a particular street, and even more narrow to one of 20 houses on that street.\u00a0 Because of the type of houses on the street, on average only one comes up for sale a year and there had already been 2 sales in the year I finally figured this out.\u00a0 I resigned myself that I was going to have to wait for a year, maybe two, before something became available.\u00a0 I was shocked and surprised when one of the 20 houses I’d selected came up for sale less than 2 weeks later and we were fortunate enough to buy it. Another example was in January of 2016, after I was diagnosed with glaucoma, had come down with shingles, and had a cholesterol level so high they couldn’t measure it, I asked the universe for help.\u00a0 The amazing thing is I found Warren, my mentor, the next month, and he in turn helped me turn my life around.\u00a0 I did the work, but he showed me there was a better way, even to the point where I’m sharing this with you so you can learn from my journey. The most interesting thing I’ve also learned, whether it’s a particular God you believe in, or the thought we’re living in a simulation, is the lessons you need to learn will be presented to you over and over again until you learn them.\u00a0 Some people catch on quickly, and move on to the next lesson.\u00a0 Some people get stuck in a rut and never move on.\u00a0 So if you pay attention, learn the lesson, and internalize it, before you know it you’ve made it to where you want to go.\u00a0 That is the true power of God. If you have faith, if you have religion, if you have belief, then you have your rituals of prayer and sacrifice.\u00a0 But if you don’t, if you’re not sure what faith to have or what to believe, let me give you something you can reach out to, something you can say in the moments when you feel the need to ask for something more: “Oh divine providence, I ask not for more riches, but more wisdom for which to accept and use wisely the riches I received at birth, in the form of the power to control and direct my mind to whatever ends I desire.” No matter what you believe, I hope it serves you well and may God bring you all the joy and happiness in the world."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Give More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/give-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"God","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/give-more\/god\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]