I was just having a conversation with my lover, Meeg, about the words Faith and Hope.I see it this way: Faith is the unwavering knowledge that things will work out just fine. Scenario: a guy is in a liquor store that is getting knocked over--bullets are blazing--and he has the Faith that he'll get out of it unscathed. He does not Hope for good health; he has Faith that he'll be okay.
Same scenario: guy in the middle of a liquor store robbery. He Hopes that he'll be okay. He Hopes that the crossfire won't knock 'im in the noggin. He Hopes that a .44 bullet will shear through a can of Campbell's instead of churning his head into soup.
Which is stronger? Faith? Hope?
I don't need the dickshunhairy to answer the question. It is a landslide victory. Hope is Faith's bat-boy. Hope? Stand back for the power-hitter--Faith.
Hope, to me, seems, ineffectual. Hope, to me, seems wishy-warshy. You ain't gotta Hope; you've just got to have Faith. Hope wears Faith's hand-me-down clothes. Hope is Faith's little brother, little sister.
Faith knows that the world will be okay, eventually. Hope wishes so but then shrugs and clicks the TV remote, looking for the last American Idol re-spin.
Faith is the mortar that solidifies the Wall of Being. Hope is the groundwater that destroys the Being.
Raise yourself up into Faith. Believe. In whatever. Just--believe.
4 comments:
i like your distinction between the two. faith is the last solidifier when all mind bending is done. but i have always thought that hope is one of the most important feelings we can have, because without it, there is no reason to strive for a better life. sometimes you see pictures of blank eyes and you just feel that they have no hope for a better tomorrow. so i think hope is an important catalyst to get us going and faith is the steady hand that makes us feel safe after we have done what we can. let us always have both hope and faith.
Yes. What you said, BooBoo.
I can't say it any better.
Let us all have Faith, Hope--and Love.
'Cause Love is the most important thing, feeling--whatever.
Without Love, we, as a species, are lost.
I have Faith that we will overcome and I have Hope...and I Love it.
*white gris-gris*
*sprinkle of Faith*
God bless.
Damn well-written. You've captured the difference between the two both succinctly and completely, which is not an easy trick.
Thanks, Sully.
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