Dearest XXXX,

I apologize for taking SO long to get back to you. I will admit that your email to me troubled me and stirred in me such a love to share with you some of my reasons for my faith in God.  Your wording was not only emphatic but very disturbed as you addressed your concern for placing my faith in a God that doesn’t care or really exist.  I do not want to start a debate with you, but just share from my perspective.

You are a very reasonable, educated and gifted woman. I love your wit and I have loved having you as a friend in my life and often my feelings have echoed yours in the fact that we don’t live closer.

We both have had to endure hardships, grief of unspeakable depths in the course of our lives, yet thru all of my ups and considerable ‘downs’ I have chosen to believe in God…who frankly does care and I have seen His care in my life shown to me over and over. 

Have I ever doubted? Of course I have! Sometimes I wondered what did I do to deserve this or that, but I read something that stated “Don’t take this (fill in the blank) as punishment, but rather as training.”  You ask me how you can put your trust and faith in God?  Part of the answer is I can trust God because He is good and has provided for me in the past.  What hasn’t killed me has made me stronger is a more common phrase!

God exists and He does care. One look at the wonderful world He created and the intricate care He put into the design and fluid workmanship. The intricate design of the universe clearly points to a master designer-God.

Sometimes it is difficult to separate what has been done in the name of God from God Himself and it makes it all too easy to just shrug it off and call it as fraud or made up. Many do awful and terrible things but just as mankind can take something good, mankind is just as equal at doing equally horrible and can usually find a way to justify their motives. Unfortunately God seems to get the blame more often than not.

Scientists get excited about finding stone tools in a cave because these speak of intelligence —  a tool maker. They could not have designed themselves. Neither would anyone believe that the carved Presidents’ heads on Mt. Rushmore were the product of millions of years of chance erosion. We can recognize design —  the evidence of the outworkings of intelligence —  in the man-made objects all around us.

The world-renowned crusader for Darwinism and atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins, states:

‘We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance.’

Thus, even the most ardent atheist concedes that design is all around us. To me as a Christian, the design I see all around me is totally consistent with the Bible’s explanation that God created all.

For those who want to know God if He is there, He says, "You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you."

Allow me one last reason for my faith in God.   I know God exists because I speak to Him every day.  I do not audibly hear Him speaking back to me, but I sense His presence, I feel His leading, I know His love, I know His grace.  Things have occurred in my life that has no other possible explanation other than God.  God has so miraculously saved me and changed my life that I cannot help but to acknowledge and praise His existence. Faith in God is not a blind leap into the dark; it is safe step into a well-lit room.

Love and Laughter,

Dawn

P.s..during times of low tides of faith for me, I came across this song, that if you could look up and download and listen undisturbed, it really may help you to understand my faith in God. The lyrics alone are ok, its the way the whole song was put together that speaks to me.

Title: Creation Calls by Brian Doerksen