Our minds are stratified. Year after year, layer after layer, colorful images collect and petrify in our being. These living monuments are who we are. We chisel and hammer to return to a more youthful stratum, but of course that is not what nature intended. Our age and character are formed by each living layer.

The foundations of our life are formulated before we can even feed and speak for ourselves. Science and religion both agree that there is a code embedded in us at the moment of conception. Our initial foundation was conceived before we were conceived. We are not accidents; we were formed for a purpose.

Like the countless stars in the sky, we are but a mere twinkling of the universe’s message for our destiny. We were shaped and destined to play a role in the expanding universe. We are joined like links in a chain to build eternity. Our hands physically join us, our minds intellectually join us, and our purpose spiritually joins us.

We are never alone. Creation blended each piece to fit together like a never ending jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces of the puzzle form the picture. One piece is not more valuable than the other. Our spiritual being recognizes when we fit with another piece. A perfect fit is defined by God’s love. To know God’s love is to feel God’s peace.

In our humanity we want to drill to the bottom of our mind’s strata, to the heart of our purpose. We pound knowledge into our heads like we drink water for life. Knowledge is a main ingredient in our quest for answers, but it is not the main ingredient. The main ingredient of our foundation is our faith.

Faith is the ability to fashion hope when you do not understand. Faith was placed in you by God. You did not have to earn it; you were given it for your journey through humanity. Faith is the light that makes all good things grow. In time, faith becomes the unity of our humanity, and the purpose for our return to an everlasting God.

We do not have to drill and recap our foundations to live in God. With the power of our faith, we can be made new. We cannot be born again, like a child in the womb, but we can return to the God that made us. Every breathing moment is delivered for us to discover God in our purpose.

We know the power of peace, because creation was fashioned to show us. Even the blind and the deaf recognize the awe of God’s nature all around them. Nature has the power to welcome you into His Kingdom. Experience nature and you experience God with all five of your senses. Seek life’s gardens, they are free and they are ours. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of our God.

There is a Grand Canyon in our heads. There is mighty river of years that carves our beings. Each one of us is a wonder of the world. We are breathtaking. We are the awe of an infinite God that wants us to find Him in the strata of our canyon. Faith soars through us like an Eagle in flight.

We do not need to fill the Grand Canyon in our heads to live. This magnificent hole holds the most precious gift of all, faith in God. When we seek God, we define each other, our purpose, and our return to a Promised Land.

The Promised Land is not a country, it is not a continent, it is not a planet; it is our destiny. Are you ready to let the light of faith guide you to our destiny in God? We are in Him and He is in us.

Open your faith to the awe of your being.

©Kathy Paysen 2009