Self-reflection in Spiritual Vision

How many times in life do see or hear of someone trying to "fix" a situation? Countless. It's almost as though we believe life should be smooth, and when it isn't our job should be to "fix" it.

We bring that attitude to our life of faith. Faith should bring comfort, should bring peace, should make life "easy". After all, we believe. But faith doesn't remove all difficulties in life. The road of faith is full of rocks, bumps, confusion and darkness. Does that mean we are lacking in faith? Far from it. But if our goal is only to "fix" things when they are rough, then we miss the gifts waiting for us in the end.

Sometimes the things that happen are "messages" for us to hear. If we look at them as problems, we miss the message. To see them as message means to stop the flow, take stock, listen, be still, and ponder. It means to examine the problem or difficulty, and self-reflect. In fact, I would be so bold as to say, no true faith can exist without self-reflection.

Faith is not your ticket to heaven. Faith is the ability for you to transform a very tangible, worldly view into one of insight into the unknown and spiritual world. We cannot achieve such insight if our very attitude is geared to "fixing" all life's problems. Some problems exist to teach us something about ourselves. When looked at from this point of view, we open our souls to greater spiritual vision. And spiritual vision, that is faith.