What Is Faith?

Thoughts on a Sunday morning

Faith Lets Us See Further

Faith lets us know that even though we may not see it now, All Will Be Good.
It lets us feel the deep significance of everything, no matter how small.

Faith redirects our inner gaze to Concrete Reality, here and now.
It reminds us that what the world is going through is on us, and therefore necessary.

Faith lets us understand how the Soul, the World and the All come into being.
It makes us grateful for the crucible of human Experience in all its pain and glory.

Faith Unifies Our Experience

When we celebrate life and enjoy the gift of being, faith is there.
When we lie awake at night in existential pain, faith is there.
When we work with our hands and bring beauty to the world, faith is there.

When we are obsessed with an idea, a thing, an issue, faith is there.
When we are sitting alone with our thoughts, faith is there.
When we drive ourselves into panic and frenzy, faith is there.

Every hour of our life, everything changes; 
Yet faith is still there.

Faith Informs Our Being

Faith is not a thought, not a set of rules.
It is the all-encompassing Idea in which we participate.

Faith is not something learned or studied.
It is something to be understood.

Faith is not something to be emulated.
It is something that actively speaks to us.

Faith does not speak in words.
It imprints information directly on our being.

Faith does not scream at us.
It shakes us to the core.

Faith does not force anything on us.
It answers if we open up and truly ask.

Supreme subtlety is its starting point. 
Supreme clarity, its goal.