When outrage burns hot, despair in the cooling embers is often not far behind. Is it possible to talk about faith without hanging the word up in the tangles of religious debate? Short answer; yes. Richard Rohr says:  “Faith is its own end”.  .  . Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism and negativity.  Faith is always, finally, a self-fulfilling prophecy.”  Many of these posts lately have been dark warnings of error and hardship coming upon us. Too dark perhaps to help much longer in this time.  The Buddhists warn against hope, but I think something always gets lost in the translation when you cross cultures and the subtleties of language.  Even so, faith is one step more than hope.  Hope springs positive on the base of evidence, but faith creates on its own momentum while respectfully witnessing the facts of consequence.  Achieving unity in our time is going to take both hope and real faith.  If you are mining for hope you might come up way short at this 100 day debacle because the evidence points in the other direction of most people’s hopes.

We all rest on a belief system of some sort.  Some may believe in a divine entity and others not.  Some may believe in a purposeful creation, others in seeming chaos relying wholly on the human state for meaning.  Faith is the summary of the aspiration of your own sense of good in community. The faith that underlies and creates this Project is that all of us as infants and very young children start out in goodness, but that goodness can get lost or forgotten to varying degrees in the dense fog of contemporary adulthood. The irony and newest danger of the age we are in is the ever increasing cultural fear of being awakened or “woke”. This odd fear of being self aware and honest exists against a backdrop of a millenniums old wisdom tradition of self knowledge and conscious integrity being the only hope for genuine faith. Good is to not only waking up and being fully conscious, but also remembering. We must recall and actively decide for the essential goodness we carried into this existence in the first place. Good is looking to the children as we seek to find a little real light in this fogged age.