I heard that phrase at a meeting the other day–that we’ve got to have faith in faith.  To believe that our beliefs will and are working.  Giving faith a chance to show itself.  And one way to do that is to be willing to believe.  To allow it a chance, to take steps along that path that looks like faith.

Faith isn’t hope.  Faith usually comes in when hope is completely gone.  Faith is what shows up right after complete surrender.  Surrender is when I finally give up hope–and that’s a good thing.  Hope sometimes serves as a fall-back gripping fierce last wrenching of control on a losing situation.

My desire today is to hold myself in loving kindness as I walk this brilliant bird singing spring day in faith that my dull trudging heart is as wondrous as an unopened tulip.