faith conversations
and a poem generated conversation, questions really, uncovering deep desires and accustomed ways of walking. I am wondering when it gets easier to walk this way, with faith allowing me (us) to walk away from familiar crying needs, and out into promises, and unknown explorations. This faith requires trust which mostly must be grown into, a small step at a time. Each bit of trust well sufficient for the step just taken, but not quite sufficient for the step we are about to risk.
So we all walk forward into our faith, whatever it is, whatever captures us. And at times we prune the trust tree of all branches that speak out against our faith, lest our faith be found out, be shown to be wrong or incomplete or broken. And this faith defines the skin that contains our universe, for better or worse, often remaining unnamed.
clarksapoet@mac.com 12/3/04
faith
is demonstrated
when a good friend
you trust
tells you something
you don’t believe
who then do you trust?
your friend?
your own belief?
where is your faith placed
when the belief you stepped out in faith for
(one way or another)
is demonstrated to
be false
what do these say
about who is
or is not
trustworthy
and
how does faith proceed
when proof
for or against
never comes?
clarksapoet@mac.com 7/21/08
