Where does your faith lie? This quote from Marianne Williamson challenges my way of thinking.
My mind is never faithless, for faith is an aspect of consciousness. I either have faith in the power of fear, or faith in the power of love. It seems easier at times to have more faith in the power of my problems than faith that they can be miraculously solved. Today I choose faith in love. Faith in a positive outcome doesn’t mean I’m denying a problem; it means merely that I’m affirming a solution. Where I put my faith directly influences what happens next.
I have often used the analogy of being in a deep, dark well to describe being in a toxic and abusive relationship. The deeper—and darker—in the well, the more difficult it is to see reality. But if you dare catch a glimmer of light… If you, with all you have, eventually escape the well and live in the light… Well then, only then, will the light reveal the well’s deep darkness. Maybe you have heard survivors of toxic relationships say, “How could I have been so blind?”
Likewise, it seems I have been suffering in the darkness of a soul-crushing job for so long, that after honestly searching my heart, I really can’t imagine being out of it. As Williamson says, “It seems easier at times to have more faith in the power of my problems than faith that they can be miraculously solved.”
Faith.
Such a beautiful word.
Affirming a solution.
Such a beautiful truth.
…with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26