The Essence of Faith

There are so very many things I don’t know.

Sometimes, the more I seem to know, the more it seems I don’t know.

There are many questions for me, that remain unanswered.

Sometimes it feels like the more questions I ask, the more unanswered questions I find.

There are a million or more things I could use (and have used) as reasons to detract me from cultivating the most important relationship in my life.

My relationship with God.

Maybe faith is more about trusting, seeking and cultivating your connection with the divine in spite of it all.

Trusting that even though confusion abounds in hearts, minds and voices of earthly souls…

‘So many different choices, so many different voices….’

There is peace, solitude, comfort and direction to be found in the One we all seek but so rarely understand.

Maybe faith is more about not having all your questions answered.

Maybe faith is more about not being able to neatly and precisely connect all the dots in your brain.

Maybe faith is more about maintaining the ability to seek and connect with the divine,

…catching that 1 ray of sunshine that’s beaming through the middle of that dark cloud and giving you a lifeline to make it through the storm.

Trusting that even though you don’t understand everything, there is one you can seek who does.

And because that One is the one who gets it all – you can lift that burden from your soul and instead trust as you seek to be guided along the journey.

And maybe the brain doesn’t need to be sacrificed along the way.

It just needs to remember that it might be slightly insufficient for this greatest of tasks.

I’ve written before that God gave us a brain and a heart for a reason.

Maybe it’s the heart that can carry us the rest of the way forward.

And maybe that’s the essence of faith.