Hope Vs. Faith
I was sitting here thinking you need to write something. You haven't written in ages, and nothing you've said has really been worth reading...so sit down, think of something thought-provoking and write it, darn it all!
When we think things like this...why are we always later amazed that we weren't able to come up with anything to write about? What sort of pressure do we place on ourselves?! Insanity, I tell you.
But I was sitting here thinking about what to write about (and failing), and then a small thought came to me. Hope. There's a lot of talk about hope here lately in all sorts of different contexts. Some people love hope. Some people hate it. Some people just ignore it all together. And I've been failed by hope before, but somehow, I still feel like it creeps back into my system and finds me. (Maybe I'm an optimist at heart...wait...let me laugh out loud. Okay, I chuckled. We can continue.)
But I was thinking about hope and pondering its existence, when all of a sudden, I came up with another word: faith.
Hope and faith.
And then my brain went huh! (Some of you even know what it sounds like when I say this out loud: "Huh!" Yes, my brain makes the same noises internally. It's fun. You should live here. In my brain.)
So then my brain went huh! Hope...and faith. Interesting. Are they the same thing? For some reason, I don't think so. Faith seems different.
The question here is why my brain initially linked these two as equal and then realized - almost immediately afterword - that this was not the case at all.
I think it's something to explore in a future post. I'll put some thought to it and see what I can come up with.
When we think things like this...why are we always later amazed that we weren't able to come up with anything to write about? What sort of pressure do we place on ourselves?! Insanity, I tell you.
But I was sitting here thinking about what to write about (and failing), and then a small thought came to me. Hope. There's a lot of talk about hope here lately in all sorts of different contexts. Some people love hope. Some people hate it. Some people just ignore it all together. And I've been failed by hope before, but somehow, I still feel like it creeps back into my system and finds me. (Maybe I'm an optimist at heart...wait...let me laugh out loud. Okay, I chuckled. We can continue.)
But I was thinking about hope and pondering its existence, when all of a sudden, I came up with another word: faith.
Hope and faith.
And then my brain went huh! (Some of you even know what it sounds like when I say this out loud: "Huh!" Yes, my brain makes the same noises internally. It's fun. You should live here. In my brain.)
So then my brain went huh! Hope...and faith. Interesting. Are they the same thing? For some reason, I don't think so. Faith seems different.
The question here is why my brain initially linked these two as equal and then realized - almost immediately afterword - that this was not the case at all.
I think it's something to explore in a future post. I'll put some thought to it and see what I can come up with.