Hope and Faith
Hope and faith seem related, but faith is the one
who stays when hope has left with a whimper. When hope gives up, faith rolls up
her sleeves and asks; " what needs to be done?". Faith is the strong one, she
does not have the luxury of self pity and despondent despair. Faith is what
makes us put pen to paper when we feel like we have nothing left to say and
there is no ink in our proverbial pen. Faith pushes on when hope is gone.
Doubt is hope's other face and who knows what face will show up because hope and
doubt are flip sides of an emotion. Faith is knowledge and action and faith
remembers that we've seen hard times before and that in those hard times our
needs were met and the water flowed and we had what we needed when we needed it.
Faith knows what hope forgets. Faith is what enables us to become more than we
are by helping us do that which we do not feel like doing, because at it's core,
faith believes that our efforts will be rewarded in the end, even if they do not
seem rewarded now. Faith and courage are the true sisters. While we may doubt
that we can cross the desert, faith knows that we can take the step we need to
take today and that with enough steps, eventually we will walk into the
light.
create and live in
faith.
Posted: Mon - August 6, 2007 at 01:50 AM
