I posted something about hope today on Facebook. I then got into a conversation about wether faith and hope are the same thing. And I argued for faith being an inner certainty that things will work out for your greatest good. I suggested hope is the belief in a higher possibility for the future. I guess the line of thinking is you can have faith and yet no clear hope as to what that might mean for you.
For me the hope for a better way has gotten me through some difficult times. Hope has allowed me to dream in the middle of waking nightmares. And I suppose you could say my faith allowed that hope to exist. My faith created the space where hope might flourish. Faith can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people. Well, let me adjust that a bit... faith's manifestation can look a lot of different ways. For some people it is prayer, for some people it is meditation, some their religion, some science even... But it manifests necessarily in life in some way because of the very nature of what it is to be human. We are thinking creatures. We always come from a place of what we believe in and it is expressed in our thoughts, words and actions. A person can not exist in this world without a belief, a faith in something. Worst case scenario you believe life wasn't meant to be fair and it is every man for himself. Everything you do comes from your faith in some truth.
I suppose my post early this morning on Facebook was about my own need/desire to hold fast today to "just hope for more, hope for better, hope for new and never had". The post was also an encouraging word to anyone who could use it. I woke up a little shaky, went to bed that way too. I have a feeling of uncertainty which for me is bordering on intolerable because I seriously like certainty and organization of everything. I had to remind myself to stand however briefly in the belief of a higher possibility precisely because I can't see the road in front of me today.I don't know the next step. I know today I might not be in the flow of being more okay with life than not but I can still hope. I can still hold fast to the things I have faith in. There are good days and bad days, I just gotta roll with the punches.
For me the hope for a better way has gotten me through some difficult times. Hope has allowed me to dream in the middle of waking nightmares. And I suppose you could say my faith allowed that hope to exist. My faith created the space where hope might flourish. Faith can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people. Well, let me adjust that a bit... faith's manifestation can look a lot of different ways. For some people it is prayer, for some people it is meditation, some their religion, some science even... But it manifests necessarily in life in some way because of the very nature of what it is to be human. We are thinking creatures. We always come from a place of what we believe in and it is expressed in our thoughts, words and actions. A person can not exist in this world without a belief, a faith in something. Worst case scenario you believe life wasn't meant to be fair and it is every man for himself. Everything you do comes from your faith in some truth.
I suppose my post early this morning on Facebook was about my own need/desire to hold fast today to "just hope for more, hope for better, hope for new and never had". The post was also an encouraging word to anyone who could use it. I woke up a little shaky, went to bed that way too. I have a feeling of uncertainty which for me is bordering on intolerable because I seriously like certainty and organization of everything. I had to remind myself to stand however briefly in the belief of a higher possibility precisely because I can't see the road in front of me today.I don't know the next step. I know today I might not be in the flow of being more okay with life than not but I can still hope. I can still hold fast to the things I have faith in. There are good days and bad days, I just gotta roll with the punches.
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