do you see what I see?

what do you think a christian looks like? where does the journey start? if I say that it is a person of faith, then what does faith look like? what does it mean to follow Jesus? are these just empty questions with a searching that can never end? as I look to my own faith, do I yet know exactly what shape it takes? should I even know these things, or should faith just continue to be this endless mystery, as the Eastern church teaches? slowly, faith does come...

I think that we are far too impatient with faith. should I trust in something that is easy to believe? shouldn't faith be a journey, a struggle? shouldn't there be something in faith that makes it hard to follow? maybe people sign on for something they think is going to be easy, find it difficult and then get mad at God for false advertising. but aren't I a part of God's marketing team? in some way that's the church, offering the hardest sell of all to people who aren't really looking to buy.

this got negative quick. i don't want my faith to be negative. faith looks forward. faith sees the life that can be. life can be great. we get to be a part of the greater thing. we get to be a part of something that makes us last forever. that gives us meaning. significance. we count.