Teachings,+Faith

=Faith= (By Joey-wan Kenobi)

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

Faith….

I have been here for many months… The only problem (along with patience) I have experienced and I have realized, was a reason many left was.. Faith.. Many people do not believe unless they see… But that will never bring them forward.. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” Faith is needed to be able to achieve anything in life.. When I first joined the RJK, I was suspicious. I didn’t believe what I read because I didn’t know the writers.. But after time I learned that believing is not about seeing.. its about having faith in something or someone.. And that faith paid off.. I went further in the order and started to know people better and learning from what thos people I didn’t know said… and today I’m thankful that I had this faith or I wouldn’t have learned what I learned..

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” We have experienced this quote a couple of days ago.. The order was falling apart.. People were leaving.. But a group of people held together.. Had faith that this would all be resolved.. They didn’t leave.. but fought for the order, that they had so much faith in… And it paid off…The people who left came back.. The problems were solved.. The order is stronger then it ever was..

We as Jedi need this faith to help the community grow.. we need to have faith in our leaders and not let go of them when trouble lies upon us..we have to stand by the knights and masters and show them that we believe in them and their ability to lead this order to something bigger.

And finally I wanted to point out to the people new to the Jedi ways to have faith in… themselves.. The most difficult of all things is to believe in thyself.. To have doubt in your abilities is the worst feeling one can have.. Through hard work, determination and dedication you can achieve whatever you like. Many have the problem of losing faith in themselves for not being able to do something, they had not even trained for more then a couple of days.. Which leads us to the Patience topic..

For a long time did my soccer coach not have faith in me, because I was the smallest player on the field and the players on the other team were much bigger… I was on the substitute bench and we were losing a match.. I went up to him and told him to put me in.. I told him to let go and told him that I could make a difference in the match..I asked him to have faith in me.. And he did.. He put me into the game ad I made the difference I had promised.. I helped my team draw in that game.. And from that day on I was always a starter on the team..

The point of that story is, sometimes we need to have faith even if it means making a huge risk… That risk could turn into something wonderful one day…

And I for one have faith that this order WILL become something bigger one day..

May the Force and Faith be with you!

~Joey-Wan Kenobi