This year I fiddled with the idea of the word. I read some wonderful work by Christine Valters Paintner with the Abbey of the Arts. She is the one who originally introduced to this idea of a word. Nothing really came and I had kind of just given up. Then tonight, as I sat here on my sofa with a fire, left over black-eyed peas and fresh cornbread, I realized I was making it too complicated. I needed to go back to the basics because I have changed and what I thought I believed wasn't the same anymore...perhaps the real truth I never really took the time to understand or learn some things.
Earlier this year I had read something about faith, hope and trust. I was really a bit confused and asked almost everyone what they thought the difference was in faith and trust .... what did it mean to them. I remember getting some really wonderful answers, but these answers were theirs, not mine. So my word for this year is "Faith". I am not going to analyze it or tear it apart. I am going to feel faith, live faith, speak faith and be faith. There's a part of me that wants to deeply understand so I can't analyze it or me or life any more. My brain is tired. My body is tired. Faith. And yes, for the record, I googled "what is the real meaning of faith". I received over 100,000 entries. I read one...maybe two...skimmed through a whole bunch. That was their definition of faith. I listened to some great songs about faith that someone blogged about.
Until we meet here again in cyber world, I will leave with Hebrew 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
