A difficult word

Alex Thomson offers a Zen Quaker’s view of the relationship of faith to everyday life

by Alex Thomson 23rd September 2016

Faith is a difficult word. I looked it up in a dictionary to check what it means: the confidence or trust in a person or a thing, or a deity or teachings of a religion.

What do I truly have faith in? Whatever I have faith in, it must surely manifest itself in my everyday life. Otherwise it is just words, an ideal and an expectation. Do I have faith in God, in human nature, in myself? Do I even know what these things are? I guess having faith is trusting in something you cannot prove, yet it’s what you choose to believe from a place much deeper than thought.