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Faith, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker.

“Faith is the assured expec­ta­tion of things hoped for, the evi­dent demon­stra­tion of real­i­ties though not beheld”
Hebrews 11:1

No doubt these are dif­fi­cult times hard to deal with. Many peo­ple are con­fronted with the loss of income – los­ing their jobs, their busi­ness, con­tracts, (life) sav­ings – the things that enable us to sus­tain our lives. You may be forced to cope with such deal­ings right this moment. It hap­pened to me a few times over the years but I always got back on my feet. I found that hav­ing faith assisted me. For exam­ple it enabled me to come across less des­per­ate in inter­views, be more com­posed and dis­play con­fi­dence and calm. I was able to make good deci­sions rather than let panic, stress and anx­i­ety cloud my think­ing and actions. The point here is ‘enabled me’. I still had to get active, I didn’t sit back wait­ing for mir­a­cles to hap­pen. I had to go out and do some­thing. But hav­ing faith has always been rem­i­nis­cent of a safety net beneath me — should I fall off the high wire of life I will not be severely crip­pled. Even­tu­ally I can get back up again. Faith pro­vides peace of mind and what bet­ter image to illus­trate this feel­ing than this curi­ous Mourn­ing Dove, which was sit­ting on our air con­di­tioner one year peer­ing through the window.

There is some­thing impor­tant to keep in mind: faith is like a mus­cle, if it is not exer­cised reg­u­larly it shrinks and even­tu­ally becomes so weak that any form of pres­sure will break it (akin to falling through a poorly main­tained net). It is impor­tant to make time to exer­cise your faith, daily – because once it’s bro­ken it will no longer catch you when you do fall.

Some fur­ther read­ings on Faith as well as Mourn­ing Doves.

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