Have a Little Faith

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." -Mary Mannin Morrissey

The fear I expressed in my last blog has been replaced by hope over the past week. Along with the above quote, I also have been moved by the following: "faith isn't faith until it's all you're clinging to." I'm not sure who said that last one, but if you dwell on those words for a moment you realize how true they are. It's easy to have faith when the skies are blue, the rent is paid, and the marriage is perfect. Faith really becomes faith during hard times. When you have no one to turn to. When your dollar needs to stretch a little further. When you're not sure if your life is on the right path. That's when we can call upon the faith we keep in our back pocket. Faith that will get us through. Somehow 3 fish can feed a crowd. Somehow the clouds move on and the sun shines again. Somehow we make it through. I don't begin to know why or how, but having faith has worked for me. Sure, we have to do our part to make things happen. But when faith is all you're clinging to, that's when we receive clarification for our questions and answers for our problems. It's the rock bottom of hope. It's the knot on the end of our happiness rope right before we fall off. Faith is like a life-preserver when you are too weak to tread water. It's necessary for survival. It's necessary for happiness. It's necessary to get through this crazy ride we call life.