Faith

Faith is knowing that something exists without actually seeing it. I have always believed in the principle of faith, but I don't know that I have ever fully understood it. A lot of times in life I think we have a map that we follow. We think that as soon as we get to a certain place in our life, that things will just fall into place and that we are entitled to these things just because we had faith that they would happen. I think everyone sees the natural progression that they would like their life to take, like going to college, getting married, having kids...the whole bit. When these things do not happen or do not have the right timing, I think we start to question that faith. We believed in these things for so long, we couldn't see them but we still knew that they would happen. There is a big principle that we miss when we have this mindset. We miss the principle of action. We always hear the saying, "Faith without works is dead", but do we really understand and practice it? Faith is a two-fold principle. We need to believe and we need to act on those beliefs.

All of the things we want in life, all of the things we have faith in, are out there. They are out there just waiting for us to stop waiting.