"Faith" is a much-maligned word these days. It has different meanings to different people, depending on what has been taught to you--what agreement you have made that it signifies. Even during different times in our lives, the word can have either a positive or a negative connotation.
Today at lunch I saw the following country kitsch sign on the wall:
Worry ends where faith begins.
It got me thinking. In my experience, the word "faith" conjures up an action verb feeling--you have to 'have faith' or 'summon up faith'; in other words it's not always something that comes easily. It can sometimes be work to have faith.
True faith is a knowing. You know from experience, you know from your gut. You know the truth. It's not a superstition or even a strong hope. And you only need a small mustard-seed sized amount of knowing for the truth to work for you.
A child knows that a light goes on when the turn the switch. They don't have to be an electrician. They don't have to understand currents. They don't have to see the wires installed in the walls. They have a tiny amount of knowing, but it is enough to act upon, and the world responds appropriately, by natural law. If one day, the light does not go on when the child turns the switch, it is not because their knowing is wrong. It is because there is something interrupting the flow of current--the flow from Source. Their parent, who has a bit more knowledge on the subject, would know to check the light bulb or the circuit breaker. Most of the time, that will do the trick, and the connection is restored. If not, they would call an electrician, who would diagnose and fix the problem. Electricians have even more knowledge; they are the Masters of their field.
In our lives, all we need is a tiny amount of "knowing" to access the spiritual realm and the universal laws. Sometimes flipping the switch doesn't work, so we have to take a look and see what is interruping the current. We need to each remember, that inside of us lives our master electrician, and by going inside we can gain the insight we need to reconnect to Source. The more we go inside ourselves for help, the more we will learn to trust the knowing that resides there. It will become part of our concscious experience. Others outside of ourselves can help us and point the way, but always the journey will be inward for us to become our own Masters.
A little bit of knowing is all we need to have "faith."
Worry ends where knowing begins.
3 comments:
Beautiful Heather! I love the analogy of the child and the light switch. Faith is a word that I have come back to every now and then for a couple years now. I would love to chat with you sometime about the thoughts I have on it. Knowing has definitely become the key for me. Thank you for sharing so eloquently!
Heather, thanks so much for sharing your beautiful heart and your wise words. This meant a lot to me, and I'm grateful for it. :)
I agree with Lynda, the analogy really works. I always come back to the thought, "What do I really know?" In other words, not much, but that's okay. You can have faith, the faith of a child, for a good portion of your life, complete with parents and electricians out there promising with their greater knowledge that the light will come on, but then you find that the wires have worn out and you need to replace them with new wires; and if that electrician disagrees and just continues to charge you to put patches on your wireworks, then you have to question his expertise in the ways of light (and truth). And if the parents won't question the electrician, you may have to do it yourself. You may be without light for a while, but it perseveres. The spark is always on the verge of being lit; perhaps then you will become the electrical engineer.
The only faith I have is that negative will eventually turn to positive, just like the current running through those wires, that the spark will ignite. Turn it on!
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