Mind Awake

Morning view from hotel room in Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Mind Awake this morning

Cup of coffee starts the gears

Moving, thinking, pondering life

And considering how all this strife

Will be used and turned to good

While the unknown is a bit scary, I am learning the hidden joy that can come along with hope held while deep in the unknown. Normally, our inclinations are to be worrisome of the unknown, especially when something seems to be lurking. Then the dreadful feeling of not knowing what may happen sticks to you like glue.

I have decided to flip the subject around and be appreciative of the fact that through the time that the unknown remains to be unknown, there is a hope to be hoped that something really amazing is just around the corner. Any moment now something really amazing, a blessing from God is going to happen. We are on the verge of good. It's setting our sights on what God can do, not what He won't do. It's fixing our eyes on something that is not yet seen, but is always there.

That is the definition of faith. To believe without seeing. It's in the unknown territory that we learn this. We can set aside the fear and turn around to hope and maybe even be a little surprised by joy.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - C.S. Lewis