I have faith in our marriage. I have faith that my husband will be there tonight and every night...for as long as we both shall live.
It is not an impossibility that he might not be there some night. I cannot see the future, to guarantee that he will be there, so I'm hoping in something unseen. However, his promises and my past experiences with my husband make it reasonable for me to infer that he will continue to be there, night after night.
Additionally, I love my husband very much, for who he is, so I want to believe that our relationship is real and lasting.
This is the faith I have in our marriage.
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Note - I continue to work out my faith, especially in the face of horror.
Faith is intangible which makes it a very difficult subject. On some level, it is something that we work our whole lives to understand. Or maybe that's the problem, we shouldn't try to understand it, just have it.
ReplyDeleteIt is a very difficult subject, on many levels, one of which for me is how to best engage with it in the blog medium. My gut feeling, is that faith simultaneously can be understood (and requires grappling with in order to flourish) and will always have a sense of mystery about it (because of its very nature). However, I'm forever searching for what that tension looks like.
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