Keep the faith.

I don't believe in God. I am not a follower of any religion. But I do have faith. I have faith in people. I have faith in life. And I have faith in love. I have faith in that the capacity of the human is great. I have faith in that things in life have a way of working out. And I have faith in true love, in love that lasts a life time and that the possibility of this kind of love exist for everyone.

I think that no matter what you believe or have faith in there will come times when you're faith is weakened. You will doubt your beliefs and possibly also yourself. I would guess this is what religious people would consider as test of the faith. No matter what this is a difficult time and it could in worst case lead to a personal crisis, and the only way out of it is to regain you faith or turn away from it. If you do turn away from your faith in the end, I do think that you then have found another believe to help you view life from. I do believe that most of us have believes that we live with, and I do think that the very few that really don't believe in anything at all have problems with interpreting and dealing with the world.

So the question that I put on the table is how do you get from doubting you believe to stop doubting? How do you come out of the crisis? How do you regain the faith, or find a new believe system?

During last year I suffered from a life crisis. I was questioning the meaning of things for a long time and couldn't see the point of it all or even a way to find the next step. A big turn came when I realised that a big part of my crisis was because I had lost my faith in life, in that things work out, in that as long as you're living your life actively one thing will lead to another. When I realised my lost of faith I sat down and considered if this was something I still believed, and came to the conclusion that it is. That I do still believe in these things, but that my lost of faith cam from forgetting what my beliefs are. This realisation helped my finding my faith again, and this helped my getting back on course and getting out of a dark period.

In just a few months things have really turned around for me and I have so many great new things and new people in my life. But I am still in doubt of some of my beliefs, and it is hard. In one way I have to keep holding on to my faith, otherwise I'll fall handlong. On the other hand I am not sure if I can keep believing, but if this is not my believe, then what is?