20 September 2007
Evidence of Things Unseen
Posted by Poppa under: Thoughts .
Edit: I started writing this about a week ago, and just saved it as a draft because I ended up being too tired that night to finish it. I think it’s done for now, until next week when I change my mind.
Tonight’s one of those nights when I sit here at the computer and think to myself that I want to write something, but I don’t know what I want to write. I feel like there are about a thousand things going through my head, and I really have no agenda. But who really does? I used to go through life thinking that there were so many things that we really have no control over, and that we just kinda ride along and take what life gives us. To the point that I no longer realized what I hoped for. A wise woman once told me:
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
What does all that mean to me, and how does it apply to the person I am today? I said earlier that I feel like a long time ago, I lost what I had hoped for. But I don’t think that’s really that’s the case, now that I think a bit more about it. I think I just had too much faith. Too much faith in other people. Too much faith that other people would do the right thing. Too much faith that other people would guide my life to a place where I wanted it to go. Too much faith in life. And by doing so, by just riding along, that is where I lost my hope.
I no longer live a life without hopes. And unfortunately I feel that I have lost my faith in some people. But in the same regard, I feel that I have gained faith in others. It’s kinda strange, and I feel like I’m contradicting myself when I say that, but it’s how I feel. Peace means everything to me now, peace in every single moment of my day. From the time I wake up in the morning until I go to sleep. And to me, that peace comes from a balance. It comes from a balance between faith, hope, and yourself.
You can have all the faith in the world, but if you have no hope, and no drive within yourself to take yourself to the place where you want to be, chances are faith alone will not get you there.
You can have all the hopes in the world, but if you don’t (or cannot) have faith in the people your surrounded by, or the strength within yourself to make it happen, hope alone will not get you there.
And you can have all the drive within yourself to take you to a place where you want to be, but without hope, do you really know where that place is… or will you just rely on faith?