You've Got to Have Faith, Faith, Faith

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
-Edgard Varese

I'm glad this is the quote of the day, because it reminds me of something I heard in the sermon at church yesterday morning. The preacher told the story of a three year old girl who was so anxious to meet her new baby brother. She begged her parents to let her talk to him alone, so they retreated into the living room, but listened on via the baby monitor (the patriot act alive and well in our homes) as the new sister leaned in close to her baby brother and whispered, "Tell me about God, I've almost forgotten."

It was a beautiful story, and it makes me want to reword our quote of the day a little bit...

Everyone is born with faith, but most people only keep it a few years.

Faith is a hard thing to come by, a hard thing to keep, but it certainly seems easier for a child. Maybe all the times that that faith is shaken as we're growing up makes it harder to really believe in something as we get older.

I spoke in my last post about occasionally feeling lost, something I'm sure that many people can identify with. Well, yesterday, I kind of feel like I was handed a GPS system. I awoke with an idea. An idea that I've always had in my head as something I would like to do, but yesterday it was insistent. It was something I felt I had to do. As the day went by, various conversations I had or things people said all forced this idea right back to the forefront of my thoughts.

This post might seem a little divergent, but the whole situation for me is the complete opposite. These things actually seem connected to me, and maybe I actually know where the "location" from the last post is for me now.

Anyway, one last thought before I go, the best part of church yesterday (I wasn't at my normal chuch, I was at a closer one since I overslept) was that I was seated amongst a lot of older people. And by older, I mean nearing ancient status. Obviously none of them could hear very well, and so while they had these conversations amongst themselves during the service, the entire congregation could hear everything they were saying. I'm sure that they thought they were being quiet, but they weren't.

Apparently, I find faith in God in the very young and the very old.