Faith

I close my eyes and can't see anything, but somehow I know it's still there.

When I fall, I don't know if you'll catch me, but I know you'll help me get back up.

You've always believed in something, whether you admit it or not. Even if you say you don't believe in anything, that is your faith: faith that there is nothing more.
When you were little, you probably believed in Santa or the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny. Maybe you still do... maybe you still believe in the joy and anticipation and comfort those things bring, and maybe to you that makes them worth believing in, even if your brain tells you there is nothing there.

She used to believe, but then she stopped. It wasn't really a choice she made, it just happened. Now she'd like to choose to believe again, but she's not sure that she can.

Is God just a way to explain what we don't understand? Is God really that far beyond our grasp? Is He more than a concept or a dream or, for some, a nightmare?

He knows they exist. But how can they know of him?

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1)

If I'm not always sure, can I still have faith? What is faith if there isn't doubt to go up against it?

Though faith may be focused on what we cannot see, it need not, even should not, be without evidence. I believe because of what I have seen and heard and thought about and experienced. Evidence does not defeat faith. Faith loves evidence, but faith will never have proof, for then it becomes fact.

If you have been there for me every time in the past, does that mean you will be there for me in the future? My faith, based on the evidence, says you will, but that cannot be proven until the future has come and gone.

She does not know what faith is. She does not know what hope is. She does not know what love is. She fears she is alone.

Faith can be optimistic, pessimistic, realistic. Faith can be all you have, or faith can mean nothing at all. Faith can be pursued and strengthened, but not forced. Faith is sometimes logical and sometimes illogical. Sometimes it makes sense, and sometimes it doesn't. Faith is like life. Faith is life.

How would we be different if we didn't have faith? Would we make assumptions about the future at all?

What do you believe?