Faith

It’s a decision. To have it, or not, is an option one can embrace or deny. Your choice.

By definition, faith is a confident belief which is not based on logical proof or intelligent data. It's based on nothing really. Nothing but heart.

By definition, faith means being loyal to, respecting and believing the words or ideas of a person, a concept, or a belief. In other words, believing without proof, but not without reason.

In reality, having faith is being in possession of a precious treasure; a trusting acceptance, an unswerving devotion, an emotionally charged confidence and assurance. Faith is a spiritual process.

Feeling faith makes something, or someone, valid to you. It’s an honor to the person or concept you believe in. A great honor. A gift.

Faith looks forward, never back. It's not arrogant, but humble.

Faith is hopefulness. It just is. You just do.

The ability to have conviction comes from our life experiences. Having once lost it, faith is worth searching for, fighting for and gaining back.

Faith is a treasure. Something, or someone, worthy of our faith is a gift to each of us. Something, or someone, who has earned our faith is worthy of the gift back of our own faith.

Earning it is a gift to us, giving it is a gift from us.

Faith is a commitment. It’s a promise of respect for someone else’s worth.

Trust and faith create a sense of safety, of comfort, a sense of understanding that our power is always limited by the control others have in our course.

Trust and faith create an environment in which those in whom we are faithful are given the ability to foster their own relationships with others, and to manage and master their own destiny, with our support. With our faith in their actions, and in their heart.

Blind faith. It doesn’t have to be. Not if we enter into it with our eyes, and our hearts, wide open.

It’s a risk, sure. But one most often worth taking, even if it means stepping out of our own comfort zone.

But most of all, faith is the ability to believe whatever it takes to get you through.

You gotta have faith in something. I have faith that the earth will keep spinning, my dog will continue to shred my doors, and Clay's CD will be released this year! How about you?