My faith

When I say...I am a Christian
I'm not shouting I am saved
I'm whispering I get lost
That is why I chose this way ^†

I believe faith in God should produce humility, not too many certain truths. I believe knowing one's sinfulness and God's mercy should help one accept ones faults and be open about them. It should not make one more demanding towards other people, but more patient. I believe God is not small, so he can understand us wholly, and does not need to obsess about our wrongdoings. (March 20^th, 2012)

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." (Luke 14:21)

Rick Warren's speech about Purpose-Driven Life in the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference might shed a little light, did for me anyway.

About learning life

December 2009: My faith is contradictory. With this I mean that I feel I have learnt a lot about life while listening to Christians, however I am bad at explicating what I have learnt: The process of learning I have gone through is not clear to me. It is somewhat clear that I have learnt a lot about fear and the way sticking to the truth can help avoiding fear, for example. But I have acquired this learning through indwelling a faith that I can not give a sound reasoning for. I call it a trust towards someone I do not know. As far as I can tell, I can not separate the lessons I have learnt from their source, the Bible - although I am unsure about the mediators of the lessons, fellow Christians.