"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
~Blaise PascalFaith is a personal belief. It is something that has been debated over more number of times than we can probably count; and faith has no one meaning! To a young adolescent, faith is knowing that birds will chirp at stroke of dawn, for a teenager faith is believing that his/her friends will be there for him at school today, for someone in college faith is probably believing in the fact that his friends will put 'proxy' for him; for a father faith might be knowing that his son will make him proud one day! Faith in a very general sense is believing.
All of us, knowingly or unknowingly, have faith. Whenever, anyone is in any trouble we hear the near and dear ones say, "have faith in yourself", and sometimes thats enough to give us the courage to face anything. So I often find myself asking this question that what is faith? Is it simply a feeling that needs to be realized or is it a belief in some higher power. By higher power I don't refer to God in particular, for a kid, his father or mother is the higher power.
We have countless examples from past to show us how powerful faith can be. Many battles have been won and lost based on faith. It is said that true defeat occurs when a person succumbs to the situation and accepts defeat, if he still willing to fight, if he is still willing to survive, he has not been defeated. I think this is where faith comes into play. There is a very thin line between giving up and carrying on. I am sure each and everyone of us might have come across a situation more than once in our lives when we would have wanted to give up because it was becoming tougher to carry on. Few of us might have given up while few must have carried on, and I am sure when you look back at it, you can judge for yourself what was the right thing to do.
Having said all this, does faith really give us some special power, some energy? No, faith is just the realization of what we already have. We can not stand on the roof and say that we have faith that we can fly and jump off the roof. If someone even thinks of doing something like that, he himself knows that he is fooling himself, because even if you say that you have faith in such a thing, deep down there will be a seed of doubt.
Faith and doubt can not exist simultaneously. Faith kills any doubt. It gives us that extra push that is required for us to move ahead, to do something which we are capable of. Of course sometimes faith makes us do things which we never thought we were capable of doing.
Faith is something you have within yourself. It gets tested a lot of times and the only thing to remember is that come what may, we should not lose faith, we should never deviate from our beliefs. If you believe in your actions then you will realise that your actions have new meanings.
We all have faith at one point or the other, in one thing or the other. It is not something that we should be ashamed of. It is something that gives us the strength. The moment you let go of faith, you realise that going gets tough no matter how easy the task maybe. So I would like you all to think, and think hard of the times when you have lost faith and how that turned out for you. You will have an answer. I would like to leave you with this thought -
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."
~Emmanuel
