How Can I Restore My Faith?

So much in life can shake our faith. All of the hunger and poverty and violence and environmental degradation… and of course all of our own personal tragedies. It’s hard to be sustained in faith but faith is what sustains us and nourishes us on the deepest level. So when our faith is shaken or, worse, broken, how can we strengthen or restore it? How can we return to that place of faith in God and the goodness of the Universe?

In this sublime teaching, Sadhviji explains that if our faith is shaken, we first have to ask ourselves what it was that we were expecting that we didn’t get. God is not a vending machine, she says, so when we put our dollar in and we don’t get the candy bar and then lose faith, we can see exactly where and why we lost it – and what we can do to get it back.