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Belief!

 

Day 6 - Belief!

 

The interview: He held a news conference extolling the virtues of a best-selling book on the value one may place on helping others upon this journey which is life. The advice was offered in good spirit with honorable intent, based on Christian values practiced in a secular society wrought with the cancerous consequences of evil. One took exception.

“Do you really believe this tripe?” came the cat call from a “reporter”.

 

“I do not believe ‘tripe’, my good woman,” he replied, kindly, with just a hint of cold- challenge in the tone. “I do believe practicing these S-C, Scripturally-Correct, virtues can improve individual life and lead to a better world. I, also believe, that would be a good thing, an endeavor I hear a lot of words about and upon which is spent many billions of dollars, mostly to no positive conclusion, other than, it doesn’t work.

“In my own life, I have found that when I practice what I believe, life is good. For me, for others, for the people I help, for those who help themselves. Not because of what I say, rather, for the reason that good always triumphs evil…always! Borrow a bible and read that story for yourself, dear woman; I guarantee it will not hurt and may even help.

 

“What I do NOT believe is value in a system that allows uneducated, uninformed, rude behavior to go uncalled, and, yes, even, unpunished. That piece of paper from a journalism school does not give license to spout obfuscated innuendo, the usage of two or three words in a single sentence with wrong verb tense, attesting not to the erudite sophisticate to which you aspire. It displays a void of knowledge, even, of courtesy.

 

“Belief is not just ‘what’ thoughts pop into an empty head, thereby making them both correct and valid; belief is tried and tested truth. They must be relentlessly scrutinized, challenged, dissected, inspected under a microscope. Maybe, even, carbon dated.

 

“The words Faith! and Truth! and Justice! whether they be mine or come from any other, must be seen in clear light, examined with fair-minded discrimination. Truth! is pure!

 

“If it cannot stand to such challenge, the conclusions are always the same: perverted lies!

 

“I believe in Truth! In God! In Right! In Justice! Yes, Ma’am. Indeed, I do. 

 

“If you have a problem with that attitude, then, that is your issue and not mine.

“What other people think of me is, none of my business!”

Faith! lives. Try it. Faith cannot be defeated.

Good triumphs; evil is left behind. Always!