Hope can bring faith and faith can bring miracles. Faith produce and action, but an action of the soul that is persistant, without change. No matter in what situation you are and if it turns the way you hope for or not, the faith you found is untouch, does not change no matter the results.

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Alexandria, I have a story. This is just my experience and my belief, the only thing that I have faith is in God, for everything else I just hope for. Im not religious ( if I was I wouldnt be in this forum acording to religious we all be in hell) but my life experience make me believe in God, in Jesus, especially this story.

I have a son, who was born very sick. The first 4 doctors who saw him said that he was going to die. I was just hoping and praying to God, something happen in my soul because I was not in denial ( to tell you the true I was more on the side of the doctors but I didnt give up) Most people could give up hope and theres where hope end. But some people have faith and it give then the strengh to continue not hoping anymore but believing.

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Anyway, my son was transfer to 2 more hospitals, we spend 2 month in intensive care with him and he is alive despite what all the doctors said. That something inside of me was telling me that everything was going to be ok, even if he die. So I believe that faith can move mountains and theres no room to doubt (I didnt have time to doubt, not that I was going to do it, I was sure of what I believe). So I have my miracle, my boy, my angel who came to bring me not hope because I already knew what hope was, but to bring me FAITH. The end.
He is now a 3 year old angel who sometimes make me crazy: ha, ha, ha

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I can agree with u that faith is very strong. Pls note that I would never put any one down for what they believe in. Like i had said in another I was once catholic and now basically a wiccan.

Reason why I had ask why u though faith basically faulter is because mine had. I had my faith, we'll say in the old days, very close to my heart. I loved that faith more then any thing but my husband just as much. Some May say because I loved my husband more or just as much as my faith that may of been where I failed. I read my bibble and followed it as my section, we'll say, of religon taught me I should. My beliefe in that faith faultered because what I loved so much did too. My faith didn't faulter easily untill certain things became sooo bad and my prays for some thing so simple seem to......

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never come. So, one night, though I new of no other God, I prayed for some one to help me. If there was some thing other then God or the Devile out there that would help me pls make it so because I believe that I would not last much long.
That's when, not sure how long after, my husband now, Abe, found me. Though faith that was in one religon did change into another faith of a different religon. It took a long time for me to have another religon faith. But I have always, or at least since he found me, faith in my husband and in hope that we would have those good and bad times together as a married couple should.

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Well, Im no one to judge or to put down people either. I have always respect others. I think your story make me cry a little, its that I dont know what we always have to go through many bad things. Its not bad to put your faith in the ones you love but its not that faith failed you. Its that we are human and we have the free will to choose what we do: some people choose to do bad and I think what failed you was your husband not your faith. Thats why I dont put my faith in people. See, churches are full but most of them are hypocrite. But not because of those ( that is the majority) I change my faith. But people react different. And I respect what you believe and im sorry you have it so bad. The important thing is that you found happiness and love to help you go through this life.

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Like I told Im not religious, but I have my faith. So whenever Im in a bad situation ( and its very hard but thats the only sure thing I have) I remember something in the Bible that I once read that inspire me during the exodus: that God make thm go Through the desert for 40 years to prove thm to see what was in their heart. That why he make them go through the fire, but even when they complained they always have their food and the cloths and all they need to go through the test. The rest was their will, how they choose. But That it just my belief, what I think. And I can tell you a lot of bad thing that just happen to me but not here because everybody can read and its personal, no offense

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I agree with you my dear friend. I don't believe that faith failes a person in a sense. I believe that their is a faith for every one out there. That some times it takes time to find the right faith for a person. That who ever, I say who ever in respect for all faith, is out there has created more then one faith. I might of had it bad at one time but nor would I go back and change it. It odd in a way to say the least but I don't think faith or the person faith in that faith fail but , I normally don't say this, but some times shit just happens.
I learned from what had happen to me. I made me a stronger person and I grow just as any one else. I too am sorry for what you had gone through. At one time i would give any thing to have a child and if there are angles the children of the world are the greatest angles out there.
I may not have children but I have many more then I could of ever physically had. I have those on this site I call my children and those of friend that have children that would consider me to be a second mother. I am so happy that u have that beautiful baby of urs and he has the best mother that a child could ask for.
A long time ago a person once said to me after we were discussing the subject why it was that the bad parents got the strong babies and why the good parents seem to get the weaker ones.
This parent said to me that God gave the weaker babies to the good parents because he knew that those parents would love and care for that child as they really need it and the stronger ones to the bad parents because God knows that they have the strength to go on.
It was one of the most moving things I had ever heard.

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None taken my dear. I was young in those days and those days was a long long time ago. Though most don't believe what i say but it was in the days when women had no rights at all. I was sixteen when I first got married. I was twenty three or twenty five, sry can't remember, when thy husband found me. I won't say what my age is now LOL. Faith is the best thing to have no matter what it is in.
I love my husband and I love my faith. I have the same kind of faith in my religon as u do with urs. This faith that I have now is just the right one for me. Though i loved the faith I once had some thing always felt like it was missing. When i found the faith I have now that peice seem to bring the puzzle together like never before. I didn't really believe in any thing for a long time and wasn't sure what to believe in. When I found this one I found some thing with in it like I had never found before.
Did I try to give the other faith a second chance or third. Of course i did and it wasn't that bad things keep happen and I'd stop believing but that every time aI did I just did feel the love that I knew I should have.
As for bad things yah I know what u mean. I been through several through out the years but like u do with ur faith I just believe that things will work out one way or another. I just have to be patient.

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I couldnt say it better, Alexandria, you are so right. Theres a faith out there for everyone. I totally agree, what makes us happy is what we have to follow. You are very wise. Theres no more to say. We just have to hold on to whatever our faith is that keep us going. And thank you for your words of comfort, I cannot talk to much about my son I get too sentimental, in fact I get sentimental about anything since I got him. Well, thank you again and will keep talkng to you and your husband, both of you are so wise and I get to admire both of you in this short time.

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