Faith

Faith is not just about believing in God, or Buddha or whatever

Faith is believing you might have a way to survive anything that happens in your life

Faith is a way of believing that life might show you something amazing every moment of your life

Faith is knowing that even though you might wish you were dead at night when you go to bed to sleep that God and or LIfe might wake you up an entirely different person than you were when you went to bed the night before

Faith is accepting life is a mystery and It's okay that life is a mystery

Faith is understanding that you might just figure it all out some day or many somedays from here on

Faith is going on when everyone you knew growing up is gone

At present in my own life there is only one person in my life that I have had contact with continuously since I was 5 or younger left in my life.

Of course, 5 for me was 1953.

Faith is understanding that I mostly live on for my children and their children and for generations yet unborn at this point

Faith is knowing that I likely never was born as a soul nor will my soul ever die

Faith is realizing that time and space aren't very real at all and that that's okay with me

Faith is realizing that galaxies come and go along with time and space and it's okay

Faith is knowing that I'm okay and that I live in a State of Grace and likely always will

Faith is living each moment as if it were my last---

Faith

Faith is necessary to progress in life whether it is faith in yourself, your significant other, in your body or mind working properly, in a religion you have chosen to believe in. Whatever it is no one can go on without faith in something unless someone is a baby  being cared for by a caregiver. 

In the early 1980s I met Chakdud Tulku (An enlightened Living Buddha Tibetan Lama and Tibetan Doctor) who then lived in Cottage Grove, Oregon. He was speaking to me about issues I was then dealing with in my life concerning faith and he told me about someone he knew that had attained Full enlightenment meditating on a tooth he believed was a tooth of Gautama Buddha. However, after attaining full enlightenment later in this Master's life he had the tooth analyzed by medical technician's and was told it was a dog's tooth and therefore couldn't be the tooth of Gautama Buddha. At this we all laughed. But the point of all this is that it isn't as much of a problem of what you have faith in as long as it works for you to go on and "Become Enlightened" in your life so you are an asset to yourself and all life on earth and beyond. So, no matter your religion or belief system just remember you need to believe in something even if it is yourself, or nature or a philosophy. Believing in something if your motivation if pure and correct will take you to enlightenment no matter what that means in your system of beliefs. So, though beliefs for many people center around God or nature, just remember that the important thing is everyone  needs to believe in something or someone even if it is only believing in yourself.