Believe in me. Believe me. Disbelieve. You have the power to choose your beliefs. That travelling carpenter (who roamed the earth over two thousand years ago) said, “Heaven is here on earth, here and now. So is hell and damnation.” The choice is ours. You can choose Heaven or you can choose hell. You shout, “No! I won’t choose! I don’t believe!” Well, guess what? You always choose. You choose with your actions, your behaviour, and your thinking. You choose consciously, and unconsciously. Others choose for you (without you even realizing it) by programming you with thoughts, suggestions, and ideas, and by whining to you about anything and everything.

Just like having simple rules (which you believe in), having a framework for belief on a spiritual or religious level is immensely empowering. Having a framework or structure of some type is akin to having a navigation aide. A laid-out life plan or journey is a spiritual construct for your soul or your ephemeral self. Even if you reject all concepts of God, and all practices of faith, that rejection (in and of itself) is a spiritual practice, albeit one without help from other sources or people who might have paved a path for you to follow—in order to make your true journey less difficult and challenging. That rejection is a choice, but one that robs you of a potential source of strength or power. A true warrior, recognizing that lack of power as a potential problem, would see that it does not make any sense to continue on that course of action or life plan … when a simple decision to believe could provide a limitless source of power. The amazing thing about belief is that what to believe (and what to believe in) is entirely up to you. It is up to you to invent, fabricate, create, uncover, reveal, understand, envision, or see everything relating to that belief. You can change, alter, edit, improve, and enhance your belief at any time.

Don’t believe me because I say so; believe yourself … because you can. When you do, you will be amazed and wonder why you didn’t believe before, realizing that it is a far more empowering position in which to be. You are warriors, and I believe that you will cause your outcome. So I believe, as it was written.