Without Faith, Faith In A Book Of Directions,
Faith In Oneself, Faith In Another's Word,
Written Or Spoken,
Faith In " The Soul's Invincible Surmise,"
Nothing, Not Even The Simplest Things,
Would Be Done.
From The Child Who Takes His First Step
To The Scientist Who Spends Years
In His Laboratory Testing And Proving
The Hypothesis He Has Set Up,
All Creation Is Based On Faith...
"O Ye Of Little Faith!"
Jesus So Often Cried Despairingly
To His Disciples.
It Was Not Their Intellectual Beliefs
That He Was Concerned About,
But There Paralyzing Failure To Apprehend
The Truth That Walked Beside Them.
As They Learned To Use And Trust
And Act Upon Their Little And Faith,
It Grows Stronger.
-Elizabeth Gray Vining
It Is When We Actually Do This,
When We Trust And Act Upon
" Our Little Faith" Day After Day,
That The World Answers Back
To Our Faith.
We Find That We Are No Longer Standing
Upon A "Seeming Void" But Upon A Solid Rock.
The World Answers Back To Our Faith...
It Says To The Farmer,"Sow Your Seed";
To The Aviator,"Spread Your Wings";
To The Miner,"Sink Your Shaft";.
To The Sailor,"Hoist Your Sail";
To The Engineer,"Swing Your Bridge";
To The Scientist,"Trust Your Hypothesis";
To The Financier,"Mark Your Investment";
To The Explorer,"Follow The Gleam."
Faith Is Man's Highest Venture.
The Port Whittier Puts It Thus:
" The Steps Of Faith Fall On The
Seeming Void And Find The Rock Beneath.
" It Is The" Seeming Void"
On Which We Set Our Faith;
Beneath Us, However, Is The Unseen Reality,
And Faith Gives It Substance.
-Hugh Thompson Kerr
Posted By: Judith A. Birt
Saturday, April 25th 2009 at 7:04PM
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