My Sweet Disposition
November 2, 2007
“The sunset is just my light bulb going out.”
–Ryan Adams
How do you protect something that exists merely on the basis of faith? Where can we safely put this faith and for how long? Are we putting faith into something we want to believe in or the hope that we can compel the right actions to take place? Can one’s mind and heart turn into an opportunity to establish faith?
I once gave a lesson of faith, which echoed the truths that had been placed on my heart.
People can come up with every theory, hypothesis, or logical reasoning to not have faith in gravity. Educated people could use legitimate reasoning to discuss and disprove our faith in gravity. Yet, we live our lives and use the experiences that we know and feel, with no proof to understand. Our time on Earth is marked as a lifetime of proof of what we know, and with no absolute proof, we are compelled to have faith in gravity. We look around our daily lives, and people walk through doors. People do not walk through windows. Under no circumstance, with every ounce of coherent reasoning, can we disprove one’s faith in gravity as we never see people walk out windows. At the end of the day, while one could find continuous reasons not to have faith in gravity, there is no valid argument as they walk out the door and not a window.
History has shown us that in the past, people considered the Earth to be flat. From where we stand and see things in life, we look around and know only what we can make sense of. People would see the flat horizon, giving them the belief that we were living in a flat world. Watching the sun set would show a flat line that would not be seen again until the next morning’s sun rise. For that time period, people would continue to think the world was flat only because they could see the horizon being flat. Logic and reasoning were additional convincing factors; however we know today that the world is anything but flat. It comes to perspective, stepping away from logic and having faith. No amount of arguable facts showing the Earth is flat will ever amount to any truth. At the end of the day, the Earth was indeed as round as it had always been.
We can believe anything we want to believe in. We can choose to put our faith where we think it belongs, even if that means believing in the things that we think will work. If our perspective is wrong, then those same reasons and feelings will limit the right things we have our faith in. To rely on the same, proven logic will result in a misguided thought process in thinking the future will ever change. To keep things the same, after what time has shown, is like convincing that gravity will not work in the future.
Gravity is similar to attraction, just like attraction is similar to love. If we have proof to disprove our faith, then we should discard that faith. If we take a step back and see everything that is happening, we can believe in what will always be true and that gives us the belief and the faith.
Have faith in the things that work, and give up faith in the things that don’t work.
