Format the following passage properly, for storytelling purposes:

Recently, I was asked about what I consider my strengths to be as an individual. After giving it a moment of thought, I responded with a few words of self-reflection. To me, my mind is the strongest element I possess. For as long as I have been alive, I have been seeking knowledge, wisdom, and understanding; it goes back to the concept of four planes of consciousness. When the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical planes are kept in a state of balance, their harmony serves to maintain the order of the universe. In the aftermath of my parents passing away, but even in the years leading up to losing them, I have been gradually moving away from a lot of the beliefs to which I was exposed during my youth. Or, to put it in another way, I have been becoming more receptive to new perspectives. Though my father was unquestionably more religious than my Mom, or at least expressed his faith more openly, both grew up at a time when Christianity was a prevalent stitch in the fabric of American society. Over time, that has changed, and while there are many people who profess to be Christians, I have noticed that many of them are not necessarily practitioners of what they preach. I myself have never been a hardcore student of God's Word, though I have always believed that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, and that the only way to salvation and eternal life is through faith in Him. Without getting into a prolonged discussion of what is taught in the Bible, and with full acknowledgment of my parents' influence on a majority of the views I still hold today, I have simply seen too much evidence in His favor than against it. My 'stock' answer is that whenever I go outside, I am immediately immersed in the beauty of nature. When I see the sun shine, and hear the birds chirp, and am moved to tears by a rainbow, I can only believe in my heart that there is a Creator Who still looks out for us, and has His hand on us all. While there are other theories that have been posited to explain how everything came to be, the one I always go back to is the well-known 'Big Bang' theory. With all due respect to the multitude of brilliant minds who have come forward over the decades with evidence for such a concept, I have never been able to subscribe in good faith--no pun intended--to the idea that the song of a bird, the majesty of a rainbow, the positioning of our Earth in proximity to the sun, were events that occurred simply by random chance. I have greater odds to win the Florida lottery ten times in my lifetime than for any of this to have been a one-in-a-googolplex fluke. If this Earth were any further from the sun, everyone and everything would exist in a permanent deep freeze. If it were any closer, all of this would have been immediately burned up by the devastating heat of the sun. I am sure that you, the reader, are armed with awareness that vastly supersedes my own, and if I had the ability to read your mind telepathically I would be honored to hear out your viewpoints. While it has been said that some will develop a tendency with age to block out perspectives contrary to their own, I have come to find that my capacity to consider other points of view has increased, particularly over these last few months. In the last couple of days I've already gotten to know more about Evelyn and her inspiring perspectives. As someone who studied religion extensively during her college years, she is highly qualified to speak on the subject, and recently shared her views on free will vs. God's will, the distinction between situations where the outcome is completely in our hands versus ones in which fate puts us at a disadvantage, and other topics. Those, among other considerations, were recently brought on by a difference of perspective regarding the nature of sin in our world. I was taught, and have been able to observe within my own life, that the closer a person gets to finding peace, the harder the Devil--or the 'powers that be', to put it in more general terms--will fight to return you to the state of disharmony you were once in through the allure of vices such as alcohol, pornography, drugs. I was offered an alternative perspective, one that is definitely worth consideration: that once a person has attained peace, it is no longer a matter of whether external malevolent forces will strive to get a person back on a negative path, but of what they do with that peace. Peace itself is a fortress destructible only by the individual within whom that peace exists, by the choices that individual makes in their day to day life. In my conversations with Evelyn, I have learned not only about her but about myself. I have only known her for several months at this point, but with her unique brand of compassion she has inspired me to question my reality, to contemplate beliefs I have held my entire life, to use my abilities to make a difference in our world. She has led me to self-examination and observation of habits that became automatic for me, such as my tendency to put the last (or most important) word of a (mostly questioning) sentence at the beginning of my response to it. I began to recognize other habits of mine, such as the 'disembodied kinships' I have with artists through ritualistic Google searches; my preference for using older, lightweight versions of software over more recent releases; daily routines that have been developed over years, perfected to a science, memorized as though it were entrance exam prep, and executed with a fervor comparable to Sir Laurence Olivier in the middle of a Shakespearean performance. I have become obsessive when it comes to the culture that has made me who I am today. Some would call me 'insane'. I am at the point where I no longer question it, because I know the positive impact it has had.