I'm working on it, Alamo-Girl -- or rather, God is working on it in me. I too, like yourself and others here, have been "born again," my life has been completely turned around, by the grace of the Lord. Now I see Him everywhere, in His works. You know, somehow I feel it is such a privilege to be a part of His creation, to participate in the astonishing wonder and beauty of it all. I can understand the attitude of the great saint Francis of Assisi ("peace saint" and patron saint of animals and ecology); and I especially love his splendid prayer --
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is sadness, joy;
Where there is Darkness, Light.
O Divine Master, grant
That I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
Not so much to be pardoned, as to pardon;
Not so much to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying that we are born again
To eternal Life.
Amen.
Indeed, betty boop, I recognize you as my sister in the Lord, that you are born again. It is no wonder that in the essential matters, we are of one Mind, i.e. the miracle of the indwelling of the Spirit. What is alive in us is difficult to explain to non-believers though we see it manifest even on this forum when we respond with a single voice to a call for help from one of our members.
And to apply what r9etb said in 255 - regardless of how we may each work out the details of our faith – the having of a faith in itself helps us to find understanding in the moral law which lies at the foundation of our liberty.