Faith

A friend of mine gave me a small gift today. It's not anything I can use to make my house prettier or help me in some day to day task. It didn't cost much money. Just a small token that made a very big emotional impact on me.

She gave me a tiny newborn sock that has a small containter of mustard seeds inside of it. It took me a moment to "get it." But when I did, I got pretty choked up, which really doesn't happen very often.

He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Matthew 17:20

I love the song Shifting Sand by Caedmon's Call. I really identify with that song. Some of the lyrics are below.

My faith is like shifting sand
Changed by every wave
My faith is like shifting sand
So I stand on grace

Waters rose as my doubts reigned
My sand-castle faith, it slipped away
Found myself standing on your grace
It'd been there all the time

I have faith in God, His existance, His goodness, His love. I don't struggle much with having faith that God can. But I do struggle with having the faith that God will.

Oh, and while I've been typing this, the George Michael song Faith been pushing its way into my brain. Not cool. Because once a song gets stuck there, it's hard for me to make it go away.

'Cause I gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith-ahh!