The OBJECTIVE reality

In astronomy the objective is the part of a telescope that focuses light, if it is poorly made the light will not focus well.  If it is a little dirty, it still focuses well and makes a good image, it is only when it is really dirty that the telescope needs cleaning.

Our Faith must be our objective, objective realities do not change and they help us focus on reality instead of the distortion we would make of it.  When our faith is not formed properly, then our reality is not as God intends us to see it.  A little sin, an infinite offense against God, must be cleaned off our objective, but a poorly formed one is almost worse because we then cannot focus properly on what God wants.  We need to continue forming our Faith in the Truth so we can see reality and went the image gets fuzzy we need to check our alignment with God and clean the lens.

Hardcore Faith, Hardcore Hope, and Hardcore Love are the realities of God.  Just because we don't feel them doesn't mean they are not true: 

1. Faith is belief in God, HE is there and He cares for us.  We must know that God the Father has created us in his image (an image of relationship within the trinity), That God the Son, our Brother, redeemed us and taught us to call God our Father and thus we are children of the Most High Ruler of All, and therefore are Royalty by adoption.  The Holy Spirit our Guide, Comforter, and Advocate is ever present in the Heart of every baptized believer, helping animate us to do God's will, see his truth, share in His Love, and be His grace here on Earth for all of our Brothers and sisters in Christ.

2. Hope is knowing that Salvation is at hand, not that we were once saved, not that we will be saved, but that the Redeeming power of Christ is outside time and an ever-present reality.  Live for the now, and the now is our salvation.  Yes we will die and experience God more directly, but He is just as present now in our lives as He will be then, we are just not yet perceptive enough, or prepared for what he as prepared for us.  Doubt happens, doubt is a feeling not a reality, NOT an objective.  God is real and Salvation is offered to all.  No matter how dark or what our fickle human emotions tell us, or the liars around us, Salvation is at hand and nothing is more powerful than God.

3. LOVE as God shows us in actions, NOT A FEELING.  God, the Father, Loved us when He created us, Before Jesus had become man.  Feeling and emotions are gifts from God that can console, comfort, guide, motivate and empower.  But the devil has learned how to manipulate these glorious gifts to his own evil devices.  Love is Action, God is action, He is a Creator, a Redeemer, a Motivator.  God's love is shown through actions, we ascribe our notion of the emotion of love to Him as a way of trying to grasp at the imponderable greatness that He is.  I Love my wife, yet I do not always feel love for my wife, emotions can be fleeting, but I try to always show my love.  God is always showing us his love, he can not not show us love.  We must love through our actions and accept love from others actions for we can only feel our emotions, we cannot truly share our emotions with others and they cannot share our emotions.  We can relate, but we cannot share and experience the same exact feelings as anyone else.

Do not rely one feelings, emotions, or premonitions, Trust in God and His Truth. All the reality we need is to be found in the Bible and the Teachings of Christ Handed down to us by the Apostles. We must constantly be polishing and grinding our objective to ensure we are seeing the reality God has set before us through his Lens and not our own blinded human "sight".  When we first believe we are handed our lens (our objective) to see reality as God wants us to see it, but if we do not continue in our Faith, Hope, and Love then we neglect the gift of sight God has given us and we stop growing as Christians.  This is a journey, a journey of pilgrims together in relation to one another, if we are not moving forward towards God then we are being left behind.  Keep marching, when the going gets tough rely on God and the helpers (your community) to help carry and motivate you.  One day may we all share in the fullness of relation with God as can only explained by the Trinity, a mystery.