Mental block
So there's this post that is brewing in my brain but I'm just not feeling it. Nothing is more frustrating to me then to look at a blank page and know what I want to say but not how to say it.
So I present to you a question.
How do you define "faith"? Please use your own words, your own life, and your own perceptions for this definition.
posted by Katie @ 11:39 AM
30 Comments:
Ugh! Do I FEEL you on the mental block thing! grrrr!
Okay. My definition of faith.
Dude. I have to come back to this. My brain just froze. lol
I would say faith is trusting in something. You have faith the chair will hold you up. You have faith your spouse will love you forever. Faith that someone will follow through. Faith that someone will overcome. You have faith that Christ died so that you may spend eternity in heaven. I'd say it is trusting in someone or something.
Faith is believing. Faith is security, and Faith is what you are left with when you think you have nothing. It will keep you company, keep you strong, and wrap its arms around you when your heart is breaking. Faith lifts us and heals us. Faith is a reason for living. Faith in God. My faith is a place I go to when I feel alone, and it comforts me. Faith is the reason I get up in the morning.
Anonymous - I would love to know who you are because your answere is amazing. Please come back and give me your name.
What Faith Is To Me (lol that just reminded me of almost every grade and middle school essay that I ever had to write. hehe) okay. Here goes.
Faith is intangible, yet it's what we LIVE FOR. We have faith in our relationships with our loved ones: faith that they will be there for us and never let us down. We have faith in our friendships that we'll see each other through thick and thin, and that we'll grow old together. We have faith in ourselves (sometimes, anyway) that we will succeed in the things in life that matter most to us. Most importantly, we have faith in our Creator: faith that He will do what He says He can and will do, faith that we truly can "lay it all at the foot of the cross", and faith that we will one day spend eternity in Heaven with our Father.
Faith to me is love, trust, hope, and a calming peace. It's believing in the unseen, hoping for what we sometimes can be most uncertain of, and trusting that what we're believing and hoping for will truly come to pass. In my eyes... in my world, faith is love.
A dang good song by George Michael?
(someone had too...)
Does this have anything to do with your post, or are you just procrastinating?
Either way, I'll play along.
Faith. Believing in something against all odds. Trusting in something that often cannot be tangibly proven. Hoping, loving.
I think this is how I define it, whether I am defining my faith in God, my faith in friends, my faith in my husband, my faith in myself.
OR.
...OR my faith in myself.
Though, apparently, I shouldn't put too much faith in my ability to type coherent sentences with proper grammar.
Steve - yes someone had to . . . George Michael? really? hmmmm that is interesting to me. . . . like short shorts, wake me up before you go George Michael? Wham George Michael?
Soooooooo you gonna answer it for real or are you still mad I ruined survivor for you?
CUUUUZZZZZ....
Ya gotta have faith a faith faith ya gotta have faith....
BAYYYYYYBAAAYY!!
oh I have the mental picture now of you belting this out . . . . . ahahahahahaha
Still not answering the question?
AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH
This song is now stuck in my head
STEVE fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faith = Trust
Faith give me HOPE
Faith COMFORTS me
I have Faith because I BELIEVE
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen."
Faith comes in many shapes and sizes, but I think what it comes down to is in trusting in the unknown.
Steve I picture butts shaking when I think of that song! LOL!
Faith is a firm persuasion. It's a conviction based upon what you have heard. It's a belief that is so solid nobody or nothing can take it away. You know that you know that you know. And the "hope" in "Faith is the substance of things hoped for..." is not hope like we think of the word (like when we wish something would come true). This hope is a confident expectation. Our rock-solid beliefs are the foundation for what we confidently expect.
Great, I should NOT have read about George Michael. Thanks Steve! There was some good guitar in that song, but I could do without the images of his butt. Man, now all his 80's songs are rotating every 10 seconds in my head. I'm never gonna dance again...Wake me up before you go go Aaarrrggghhh!
Faith? She's married to Tim McGraw, isn't she?
As I understand it, faith is seeing things for as they really are and not as they appear to be. This digs not only at the redemptive potential of individuals, relationship, and the world, but it also uncovers the side of us that God sees and we may not yet fully understand
Faith is hard work. But anything worth having usually is. Without it....well, what's the point then. Some people lose faith. I feel sorry for them, but I wonder if they really had it to begin with. Bad things happen, your heart breaks, you wonder why me? Where is God? Why did He let this happen? But hey, isn't our faith there to comfort us in our pain....not shield us from it, or how else are we gonna know we are alive. I don't think that faith is trusting in the unknown. I believe it is knowing the One to trust. THen...everything just falls into place. (for me).
Oh, and I guess I should get a blogger ID. Maybe you can help me with that when you come to B-town for a xmas visit.
Aunt J
Faith is "fake it 'till you make it." It is professing His goodness and justness even when it feels like the whole world is against you.
Faith is a "head thing." It's not wearing your feelings on your sleeve. It's knowing in your HEAD that what God said it true no matter how your heart wants to ball up in a corner and just cry.
It's praising Him on the mountains AND in the valleys.
Faith is believing that Jesus died for me. Even if I was the only person, He would have still gone through all the horror, just for me.
Faith is knowing in my heart that I am an adopted daughter of the King!
Ooooh. Thanks for the exercise. I have goosebumps!
I believe the verse eddo quited was Heb. 11:1.
Faith is having someone to believe in or something to believe in. Faith is not blind.
I like to say there is evidence behind the faith that I have and that makes it stronger.
God puts trials & obstacles in our lives to test our faith and to see what it is made of.
Everyone has faith in something. If they tell you otherwise then they're lying.
What some people put faith in really scares the (you know what) out of me....
THANKS A HEAP, STEVE.
;-)
wow thanks guys, your definitions are so personal and yet all have the same thread and heart (love that).
Keep them coming, I'm processing so the more thoughts, the more definitions, the more individual workings of this concept are manna (is it one n or two?) to my thought processing
BAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYBBBAAAYYY!!
In honor of George I am not shaving for the rest of the week!!
uhhhh so scruffy = George Michael?
We'll need pics as proof that you went through with the tribute.
Logan I fear the effect that Steve might have on a young upstanding guy like yourself, if he tries to get you to sing a George Michael duet RUN MAN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
Faith to me is believing, no matter what. Even if the evidence is against you, you believe. Whether it be in God, someone's love, someone's innocence or yourself. When everything is against you, you believe.
AND it's a really good George Michael song. Steve and Logan could do "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" - George Michael & Elton - one of the best duets evah!!
Logan - you don't sing? Great my entire life is turned upside down because all Oregonians don't sing, really I don't think life can go on with that realization.
Well I guess you'll have to leave the singing to Steve (though not in the spirit of the O Holy Night rendition) and the preaching to you. Tag team it is.
can i tell you how much joy I had in the fact that you (Logan) used the word oregonian three times in your comment
it really is the small stuff in life that brings me joy
If seeing is believing then faith is feeling
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