Welcome to Love Notes from Rhonda, and let's talk about faith.

What do you have faith in?

You know, some people say, like, well, I'm not spiritual, I'm not religious, yet faith not necessarily has to be connected to either of those things.

What do you have faith in?

Now, most of us immediately go to faith in the good way, like, right, the faith.

I have faith in humankind.

I have faith that the world is going to turn around.

I have faith that I am loved.

I have faith that there is a God.

I have faith Today I want to one applaud what you have faith in that empowers you and is powerful for you.

Yet you also have faith driven by fear.

So do you have faith that you were never loved by your mother?

Do you have faith and count on that people don't accept you the way you'd like to be accepted?

Do you have faith that you're never gonna get that raise?

What do you have faith in?

What do you count on?

What do you believe so wholeheartedly that you would call it faith?

What works for you and what works against you?

What works for you and what part of faith works against you?

Faith is a beautiful word.

And I want you to have powerful faith in things that support you, empower you, allow you to become who you were born to be.

I want you to have faith like that.

Because sometimes when the world gets dark and you forget who you are, having that faith supports you, reminds you of the truth.

In those moments of darkness, it reminds you.

When I was going through my dark night of the soul, it was very difficult.

When you're in the dark night, basically, a dark night is when the world you thought existed is no longer there, right?

That everything that you thought you believed in has shifted.

The rug pulled out from under you.

The identity of who you thought you were is no more.

The things that you thought you were don't fit anymore.

Dark night of the soul When I had my dark night, the thing that I know got me through that dark night was that I had absolute faith that my dark night was going to help me grow and become more of who I was meant to be.

I absolutely 100% believed it and still believe it to this day.

That dark night was essential for me to become who I am meant to be.

More and more and more, that dark night was part of my path.

I had faith.

I had faith in that dark night.

I had faith in something larger than me, that it was moving through me, that it was inviting me in to go deeper, to look at the darkness.

To know that when you face that, you won't be afraid.

The level of fear that you have changes.

Nothing feels as scary anymore.

And having that faith allowed me to look that darkness in the eye.

Because I knew, ultimately, that moving through the dark night would get me to the other side, and I would emerge like the Phoenix Rising.

We all want to be that Phoenix rising.

Yet when we're in the middle of our dark nights, we forget.

We forget that we'll get through it.

We forget.

So I'm here to remind you.

What do you have faith in?

And what do you have faith in that empowers you?

And what do you have faith in that disempowers you?

Because everybody has faith.

What's yours?

Until next time, be fearless.

I love you.