How do you keep your..

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how do you keep your faith & hope alive in the darkest times?? in short-whats your formula of having faith & hope even in the darkest times??

thank you for answering!

Answer 1

I'm atheist, so the concept of "faith" per se is a bit awkward. However, I understand the principle and apply it in my daily life, just without the nagging suspicion that I have to behave in a certain way in order for the "higher authority" to approve of my faith.

I think about the entire planet as my neighborhood. I go about my day and occasionally think, "I hope something good happens today." You might consider this a form of prayer, and I suppose on a neurological level, it's probably the same thing. But I'm not putting out a plea to a deity, just extending my hope into the world around me.

I have a friend and former student living in Tbilisi, Georgia, and I hope for her safety and that of her family.

I have friends living in Australia, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and North Africa. I hope for their health and safety, just as I do for my friends here in the US, in my hometown, and next door.

Answer 2

~~~ As someone said ' Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe' ,

My dear sis ,  we need to believe in ourselves first. ... and that belief will keep our faith and hope alive in the darkest times.

Good question .~~~

Answer 3

Faith  is all that keeps things moving & alive...Never cease from loving God above all... for God will never cease from loving you. And now go and follow that which is... good... and seek peace.

Answer 4

Hope is what keeps me going, even through the dark times. No matter what is going on in my life, I keep even the faintest bit of hope that everything will be ok.  

Answer 5

Everyone of us face the darkest time ,atleast once ,and more in our lifetime . if we keep charging the battery of courage,its bound to come in handy in times of emergency ,thats the formula of hope and faith. never let ur battery uncharged.

Answer 6

I tell God to please handle this one and then let Him do it.  He will NOT fail to take over if you let Him.  That is faith. The hope comes with that realization.  When you do this God might just tell you what he wants you to do. So when that happens just do what He tells you. If not then just go with it.  He will not close a door without opening another one. That also is faith.  Prayer is the best thing in the world at all times .  Don't stop talking to God and praising HIm.  Then all things will work out ........but in His Time not yours.

If it is grief you are dealing with then remember that there are 5 stages of grief and you must go through all of them before you find peace inside yourself.  Most people have to go thru several of them over and over.  

LIttle tincture of time is the best cure all in the world

Answer 7

BY LIGHTING A LANTERN.

Answer 8

I don't really know about faith, because I'm an agnostic. I can tell you that if you want to keep hope, keep believing that things will get better, no matter how bad they seem now.

Answer 9

it is  my fortune God is great helping me always

Answer 10

this is a question only you can answer really.  You have to keep your head up and find what will help you through tough times.  Im not a religious person, but i do think things happen for a reason sometimes.  You just gotta know that things will get better

Answer 11

Loving the people closest to me.  My wife, my family, my friends, and s***w the rest of the world.

It's a really really rotten place.

Read this:

http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm

Answer 12

before morning ... is the darkest hour!!

  

Answer 13

The way I do it, is not to even try. They've never failed me.

Answer 14

Faith and hope are what you make of it. Dark times happen to keep us appreciating the good times. Look past the fear, come up with the what if's and make a plan for each. Faith and hope will return when you have a workable plan.

Answer 15

every person has his own formula to have faith, and hope for the best even in darkest times, it depends upon the problems you are facing or suffring from. Sometimes we leave it up to god or destiny and sometimes we feel so strong that we may change the circumstances accordingly by using our willpower.

Answer 16

good question. i feel you.

Answer 17

just remember what ur parents taught u and believe that there is someone who always care bout u. u must hear the song by hillary duff " Someone's watching over me" you would find it on google.com.

just enter hillary duff and scroll down to the bottom.

Answer 18

Praying of GOD and keeping in touch with heart and brain.Darkness goes and brightness comes.Let u try hope u will be happy.

Answer 19

In the darkest time as you said, there are no darkest times, it is the imagination when a person is dejected or become hopeless. It is the creation of  ones own thought.

Faith, yes in whom you have faith, it is again your thinking, in which person or GOD you have faith.

Believe  in which you have belief, you will get a new lease of life.

About hope, everybody lives on hope and this is our own creation, always hope for the best.

After reading your profile I become very very dejected myself, usually I do not answer questions related to any thing but only about education related matters.

You need a counselling, so write me at my email at my profile, I will try to solve your problems. O.K.

Answer 20

i am a progressive, so I hope for the fiture-things always have a potetial of being better than they were...as for faith, I am an atheist, so I do not have faith, and have found no use for it