Faith & Hope: What Is Real?

Faith and Hope

I met someone the other day at a party who was in so much pain, it radiated from his core.

His mother had been a cult leader in the 1970s and today, he does not believe in psychics or healers or anything that can’t be proven. I understand the skeptics. To be honest, I’ve been one myself.

I’m the reluctant psychic, the person who never knows if “it” will work every time I sit down to do a reading. (But it always does.)

To explain this, you have to understand that I’ve spent much of my life desperately trying to hide this “gift” that I have. Because of personal insecurities, I never wanted to invite challenge from the skeptics.

So, of course, the week I started reading professionally, I was hanging out with a few actor friends, and one guy got wind of my new career and stared me down.

“What makes you so qualified?” he asked.

There I was…put on the spot…a deer in the headlights.

He shook his head, “Do you really believe this shit?”

I was terrified. What was I doing? Did I really believe it? Then, a calm came over me. A little voice said, be honest, tell the truth.

“Not really,” I responded.

It caught him off guard, but not for long. “Then how can you do this crap?”

“I don’t know,” I told him. “I don’t really believe it, I just know it.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” he responded. His arrogance was annoying.

“Most things don’t.” I stated as I leaned toward him. “You know what doesn’t make sense?” I asked. “What doesn’t make sense is that you’re an arrogant a**hole, and you’re going to be really famous for being an arrogant a**hole.”

I ran into him about a year ago. He’s a celebrity now. And yes, his character is a big, arrogant…you get the idea.

The only thing I can say for this guy is that he’s not afraid and never was. He’s confident.

But when I think of the guy I met at the party, he’s confrontational and afraid.

There is a BIG difference between these two people. One is scarred by his past. The other is congruent within himself.

Where am I going with this?

Well, the guy from the party thinks all psychics are bogus. He has all kinds of reasons for this. When I told him that he had a right to his opinion, he replied that it was reality, that he was rooted in reality.

What I find so sad is that the only way he can deal with his family scarring is to overcompensate the other way and completely deny the presence of anything he can’t prove.

It’s obvious that it’s about his mother, but he can’t see it. Ironically, as his mother converted hundreds of thousands of people to follow her channeled message, the one person who lacked faith was her own offspring.

My faith has gotten me through some pretty rocky times lately, and honestly, I do not know how anyone can survive without faith.

Family scarring is powerful stuff, and I’ll be writing more about it. Living without faith is a lonely business, and I can’t see living this way.

My message to you? Believe. Believe in something magical. And if you have trouble with it, think of something that inspires you. Right now, before you forget, make a list of ten things that inspire you. If you can’t think of 10, write five, or even, two.

Faith is the only thing that is real to me.