Spirituality Case

Spirituality is something that I am still struggling with. To be quite honest, my fear lies in committing fully to spirituality and faith and then all of the sudden something happening that makes me question the spiritual path I have taken. I don’t want to “blame God” for bad things that happen. I know that my continuous efforts and education in spirituality and faith will allow for me to accept the bad as well as the good, but right now, I am struggling with this potential consequence. As I mentioned in my previous reflection, I am committed whole-heartedly and whole souly to learning more about spirituality. Even though I am fearful of it, I do believe that committing to each reflection and meditation exercise will help me conquer this fear.

The readings and lecture from seminar 2 really influenced me. I do believe it was because I was a little more open to spirituality and meditation from my previous meditation exercise attempts. I come from a scientific background, so the Faith and Health article was really interesting to me. I have often heard that prayer can help heal someone who is sick, but I used to think it was just a good gesture to pray. The statistical connection of distance prayer was quite powerful, and gave me a different perspective of why people pray. The mind is a powerful thing and it really seems like if you believe and pray for good health, you are more likely to have it. After reading this article, I thought I would experiment and prayed at night for my grandfather. He is suffering from Alzheimer’s and doesn’t remember any of my family members. I prayed that he would remember us just for a little bit so that we could tell him how much we loved him. I Skyped with him and my father on Sunday and for the first time in a long time, my grandfather looked straight at the screen and said that he loved me and my dad very much. It was so powerful and emotional that I began to believe that there is this linkage between faith and good

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