A few years ago I had to have surgerie on my sinuses...es the doctor told me the full range from how basically they will try and snake out the sinus and if that didn't wortk the progressive step they would have to take. And than this damn procedure took FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I could not eat, last meal was the day before, I was suppose to go in at 10am...did not get taken down till 6pm and than waited by myself in the prep room for another 3 hrs. As I lay there I thought this would be the time a person of faith would pray.
I did not pray, but what I did was start to think. I started to think about life and how I have adopted the tenates of the Sith...Yes it always comes back to star wars. I reflected how satisying the traits of being a Sith Lord were. How a Sith Lord gains strength thru perserverance and challange How a Sith does not seek comfort and realease from pain but uses it to embolden his power.
The point I am trying to make is your beliefs are what you make of them and what you choose. Sadly most of us had that choice made for us by others, but there comes a time of personal awakening and revelation, that demands we choose and follow beliefs that will benefit and empower us as an individual.
Even tho I am an athiest I have a degree of PERSONAL spirituality with-in me. I reconize that salvation lies with-in and that I can choose the nature and form of that salvation. Another thing I have come to realize is that I DO NOT need to force that belief on others or expect them to come to a plane of belief close to mine.