Faith is not…

[Intersections – III]

Faith is not stupidity or ignorance. Sometimes there are elements of stupidity, insofar as stupidity is a quality of childlikeness. Ignorance? Sure. Small doses of it. (Isn’t there always room to learn?)

Faith is not knowing beyond a shadow of doubt. (I don’t even have that much confidence in gravity.)

Faith does not require a PhD. Though it can. Faith doesn’t require anti-intellectualism and willfully inhibiting learning. Though believing in the futility of such endeavors might be part of it.

Faith is at the intersection of belief, practice, and idiosyncrasy. It’s hopefulness with flesh on it. And a little bit of weird mixed in.

Children have a lot of it.

Grown-ups struggle to allow themselves to have much.

Faith is the soul in action.