The audacity of hope…

“Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts… [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced…” – Barack Obama

I hoped for a lot of things in this life, wealth, education,  unconditional love, peace, joy. The absence of these to the extent that I would like to have them does not mean that my life has not been lived.

I’ve learned to acknowledge that every challenge, every defining moment  determines who you are as a person.

I’ve had many experiences of expressions of faith; some for myself, some for others while I was the casual observer. The one commonality in these experiences  Is that  faith is not a rubber stopper, it’s not the plug that you use to prevent challenges.  Challenges  are necessary to make you exercise your faith, it  is necessary to determine whether or not this thing that you have really is faith, or a farce or a pretense or something that you say to yourself to make sense of the flow of tears that runs down your face in your quiet moments.

Faith!

Faith  is  your audacity to hope for the best. Hope that  in all your efforts you are a good person; hope that you meet good people, hope that the care you exhibit will be reciprocated… just because you hope.

Hope that your dreams will indeed become a reality and that every challenge really is a stepping stone for the best that is yet to come.