And that changes! At its best, faith infuses me with the peace I need, you need, to handle life’s fragility and daily defeats. The largeness of my faith depends entirely on the degree to which I trust God. Faith, as I understand it, is a personal and intimate relationship between my soul and God - a “love pact,” if you will, that invariably informs who I am, how I move in the world, and how I love. In praxis, faith is a disciplined effort to connect with that which is larger than ourselves, our circumstances, our fears, and our mortality, and to find grounding and peace for our souls in their short stay here on earth. Sadly, sometimes we ignore it, or the secular world silences it, or we lose our courage in times like these to trust it. I am convinced it is a longing for the eternal while we are sojourned in the temporal. It is experienced as a longing for something more. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.” Even our clever imagination struggles to fully grasp it. Even with leaps and bounds in scientific advancement, there is still no tangible proof of its existence, nor its power. A creative and redemptive presence is in charge, and a wondrous spiritual reality permeates everything. But my efforts are not in vain, because I sense that faith is something we will spend our entire earthly lives working out or, better said, living into the definition.įaith begins with a twinkling suspicion deep within us that there is more here than meets the eye. Spoiler alert: There is not a one-size-fits-all definition for “faith” in Webster’s Dictionary, because faith is mysterious, ever-evolving, and truly personal. Is my faith saving me right now too? Whew! Recently, someone I admire said, “My faith is saving me right now.” An alarm resounded in me. All of it threatening to upset our equilibrium and peace. Like me, do you sometimes find yourself calling out to the cosmos, “What next?” Tornadoes and a worldwide pandemic, racial injustice, political discord, financial insecurity, cancer everywhere, just the regular hiccups that come with being human and in relationships with other human beings.
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