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Posts tagged faith

Nov 19
“The sterner part of me, the part that’s determined to be nobody’s fool, says, ‘Just admit it. God is a fiction we’ve invented to help us live with our awareness of our own mortality.’ But at the same time, a universe with no ordering intelligence of any kind is so barren… Do I, does anyone, really and truly want to be so undeluded as to live in a world wholly devoide of mystery and magic?” Michael Cunningham, when interviewed about his faith by Antonio Monda in Do You Believe? Conversations on God and Religion (Vintage)
Posted at 10:47 AM Tagged: faith

Jan 5

On the 12th Day of Christmas: Faith

Faith. I have some trouble with the concept of fate, choosing instead, to believe nothing is truly ‘fated’ or meant to be. But I do believe in having faith as a virtue which, hand in hand with our personal values and innate talents, empowers us to create our own destiny. I have that faith in the divine and the spiritual, a faith in others and in self, faith that good will always defeat evil — I choose to believe in every variety and aspect of it.

Faith is like family: Always there. A constancy you can always fall back on and become more resilient with. Our faith is something we honor. Thus faith is a good virtue to end our 12 Days of Christmas celebration of the 12 Aloha Virtues, don’t you think?

I loved the shades of grey in this Wordle too: Grey has always appealed to me as a color in its own right, and with faith unwilling to impose too much upon the other eleven virtues, it is our invitation to add more color to life throughout the year to come. Have faith!

Postscript:
The series starts here: In Keeping with our December Tradition: Twelve Aloha Virtues

  1. On the 1st Day of Christmas: Prayer
  2. On the 2nd Day of Christmas: Vitality
  3. On the 3rd Day of Christmas: Grace
  4. On the 4th Day of Christmas: Peace
  5. On the 5th Day of Christmas: Wonder
  6. On the 6th Day of Christmas: Gratitude
  7. On the 7th Day of Christmas: Humor
  8. On the 8th Day of Christmas: Joy
  9. On the 9th Day of Christmas: Hope
  10. On the 10th Day of Christmas: Freedom
  11. On the 11th Day of Christmas: Trust
Posted at 9:25 AM Tagged: faithvirtuesFlickrWordleTwelve Days of Christmas

Dec 25
Apparizione (via Andreanix) Third photo for a Flickr Gallery created this morning for my Twelve Aloha Virtues. As I wrote there: From youth to age… I would love to know what he is thinking. The black and white treatment is so perfect here, from the dark in the lower left corner to the bright white top right, where no corner can be seen, and where there seems to be a connection to his fingertips. It is fitting, and wondrous, that the complexity of man dwells within the greys. My search was for faith.

Apparizione (via Andreanix)

Third photo for a Flickr Gallery created this morning for my Twelve Aloha Virtues. As I wrote there:

From youth to age… I would love to know what he is thinking.

The black and white treatment is so perfect here, from the dark in the lower left corner to the bright white top right, where no corner can be seen, and where there seems to be a connection to his fingertips. It is fitting, and wondrous, that the complexity of man dwells within the greys.

My search was for faith.
Posted at 11:30 AM Tagged: faithprayerFlickrtwelve days of christmasvirtuesChristmastide
Source: Flickr / andreanix