Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
GRATITUDE
— William Ellery Channing
GRATITUDE
Read with or without a religious commitment, that describes something recognisable: caring about something enough to reach towards it before you can prove it will be there. Every serious attachment has that structure, whether the object is a person, a body of work, or a way of living you have not reached yet. On this account, faith is love pointed forward in time.
Notice what you keep reaching for without evidence that it will work out. Rather than arguing yourself into or out of it, ask what it tells you about what you care about, and whether your week reflects that.
What do you long for on behalf of someone you love?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.