RE: Faith in God: The greatest thing I learned from my father

Your father is truly a great man, and I admire how inspired you are by his good character! I can see that he's a good role model to you, and the way you speak about him and how proud you feel of him resonates with me 👏

I believe that only faith can make such a man, and that's a good thing to see. Not everyone has very strong faith, but I'm very sure we're all working towards something that makes us unshakable. When you have illnesses and people tell you to go to the doctor, but then you pray over it, those are things that could sometimes make you doubt if you're doing the right thing or not. Because society tells you that's not the way it should be.

I am also a firm believer that faith moves mountains, meaning that faith can cure and heal. I am not a very religious person, but the other day I went to this shrine in my place. For several days, I think for a week or so, I had always felt this voice inside me, this calling, telling me to go to the shrine. I was having this gallbladder pain, and I wasn't always feeling well. Just when I thought that I was in the worst of the pain, I finally decided at 5:00 AM to travel two hours to get to that shrine with my family.

Believe it or not, something unexplainable happened. I woke up the next day after going through two hours of healing prayer, feeling like a million bucks: no pain, full of energy, and full of life. I realized how much we take for granted these little things. Just waking up feeling better, feeling normal, is not a privilege that everyone gets in this life. Yet we do have that, and that gives us hope. That day, I was very thankful. I don't know how it happened, but I know that during that time of prayer, I was there in my heart, and I believed.

I know that unshakable faith makes an unshakable person, but that faith is really hard to cultivate because we will always question as we go. So I completely understand your admiration for your father. I did not get the opportunity to have one that I admire so much, the same way as yours. I appreciate you sharing your story with us. Thank you!