Faith is being content to wait
in the desert of sweltering heat,
watching the world go dancing by in a cool breeze-
without abandoning your post.
Faith is the invisible candy so sweet
you’d turn down 7,000 glamorous invitations-
to savor a single piece, in solitude.
If you hold onto your faith long enough,
it becomes an eternal spring of freedom,
welling up all around you-
carrying you to distant lands of indescribable bounty.
[…] Like Emily, I have a sacred, achy, almost sad “loneliness” in my heart that I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world because it’s mixed with a mystical almost magical love for and connection to the Holy Spirit that keeps drawing me deeper into God’s mysteries. I wrote this poem called “definition of faith” to express that exact paradoxical reality… […]
Definition of faith | Unite in Prayer
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