Move the Mountains - Lynn Woodland

Faith is an awesome force that can give us the power to accomplish the seemingly impossible. There are many well-known examples of the power of faith in action. Mother Teresa, for instance, always had faith that God would somehow provide the food, money and provisions she needed to continue her service to the poorest of the poor. Writings about her work are filled with miracle stories of how the things she needed showed up exactly when she needed them, often in the most surprising ways.

If you put your hand in fire, do you believe it would burn? Of course you do, and it probably would. Yet if you were to attend a fire-walking event and spend an evening with a group of people convincing you that the fire wouldn’t hurt, it probably wouldn’t. Many ordinary people have attended such events and successfully walked over impossibly hot coals with little or no blistering.

Group agreements such as these, where a group of people decides that reality is going to work differently, are very powerful. Faith is catching. We can catch it from each other and one person with particularly powerful faith can spark the faith of many.

© "Times of India" (dated January 8, 2006). Reprinted with permission.

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