Go out on Faith

When you're not sure of what's to come next, when your life just seems like it has stopped in the middle of the sea and has left you to drown, when your not sure if you can go on and survive anymore, you have no choice but to go out on faith. I recently learned there is a significant difference between faith and hope, you see faith is confidence and trust in something that you can't see, and hope is something you have witnessed before, something seen in the past, having a strong confidence, a hope, that this could happen again. So having faith requires you to be a strong person mentally, you have to be willing to have confidence and trust that things will get better, even though you can't see it. Lately I myself have been feeling like I was running on low faith, but God always brings something magnificent in my life to show me he has not forgotten about me, and it's always the little things he does that open my eyes to how foolish I was. I just read a book entitled Weep Not, Child by Ngugi Wa Thiongo, and it really opened my eyes to how blessed I really am, these people were extremely poor and what really touched me was the child Njoroge who had a passion for education, God, and to change his country. But in the end he lost everything, he lost his education, his duty to help his country, his love, and even his faith. I cried after I finished it, it wasn't the fairy tale ending that we are all so used to reading. I sat and thought to myself to lose your faith is to lose your life, and I can never allow that to happen to me, and I became so thankful afterwards. Think of the many things we take for granted, Education, a home, a family, clothing, food, to live. Be thankful, have faith, and never lose it.

peace