Calendars have months. Twelve. Months are specific, sequential into the FUTURE. Days of months are numbered sequentially in boxes which are blank for us to insert our FUTURE plans (commitments) for any and all specific FUTURE days. 

 

So, to insert, commit, record that a specific future day will be noteworthy is FAITH that we will live to experience that day. That we’ll endure, enjoy, attend, share or suffer some specific future event. Preparation for any future: Faith!

 

Ah, but what powers Faith, you might challenge.  Many would answer that it comes from God and I would not debate them. Frankly, I don’t understand the origins of much.  So many theories, so many conflicting explanations, so much to read with so many words I do not understand…Yet, I do believe in a higher power by whatever name a given group assigns and that the wonders of our world and universe did not just come from a big boom.

 

Now, I am not one who says, “give all your problems to God and all will be well.” I tend to think that my Faith in the future will come both from preparation to deal with it and the acceptance of the frailties of earthlings and the messes which we create for ourselves.  I’ve Faith that the world can be a wonderful and beautiful place with love and laughter and life worth living.

 

However, our world can be a horrible, painful, frustrating and deadly place through no fault of our own. I could never believe that my God sends those things upon us any more than I could be sure that all good things come directly to us from Him. I plan for good days, accept the reality of bad days, but by Faith, life will continue, with the best yet to come…