Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Faith married Hope and they were both so disillusioned they named their daughter Disregard

How does faith persist? Really mom? That is what you want to ask after all this?

How could faith not persist? I mean how can a person, who is not omnipotent not have some form in faith. I mean, if you start with the most basic, you have to at first when you wake up believe that you are indeed awake and a person. When your pillow feels like you remember it to feel, and your toes wiggle upon command, there is a logic to give credence to the idea that you are, in fact, alive. In a way it is then our reason which gives legitimacy to our faith (and strangely enough doubt that undoes it). A faith in the patterns that we live by.

Yesterday I saw a sign on a church with a picture of Mary holding Jesus. Across it was written: "Pregnant?....... Don't Worry!"

What I want to know is how people come to believe in/ have faith in such strange/sad things. And was this church insinuating that your child could have been immaculately conceived, or that: It's okay, Jesus was a bastard too!?