Faith

I have been vexed lately and possibly in the mood to wax poetic for some time. I have been turning the topic of faith in my mind over and over as of late. It is a seemingly simple word but it carries some weight.  Go back a few seconds and remember what the first thing was that came to your mind when I said faith. Or rather wrote the word out, but that is not the point, you thought of something when I wrote it. I have a hunch that almost everyone thinks of something and likely no two people have the exact same reaction to the idea of faith. For some people faith is a religious construct and the nonreligious have another reaction. Some people put their faith in themselves, how many times have you read or heard about someone making it “big?” Now how many of those stories used the expression ‘bet on themselves’ or some other sentence syntax meaning something similar. One of the things I feel about faith is that anyone who ‘bet on themselves’ put their faith in themselves to succeed. Some other analogous notions could be when someone tells you to be patient, to wait your turn, or that your time is coming. To me these things all have different meanings but they all involve a small bit of putting faith in yourself. But what about religious faith? Some people put their faith in a higher power and that is also wonderful. I don’t know if this is the kind of thing with right and wrong answers. It feels like no matter what you think of when I write faith, it is just great that you have some. And if you ever find yourself all out of faith, sit down and do everything you can to get it all back.

It’s okay to not like something, just don’t be a jerk about it.

-Ben