...If you think that faith is only justified when you wish for something and it appears before you, well, that may not be quite so - especially if your desires are not yet in harmony with your deeper desires, with the Greater Will, or with the flow of nature. Faith is not just a tool to use for getting what you want, although the ultimate result of faith can be to first learn to want what you get and, from that position, to get what you want.

Everyone has different levels and configurations of faith. We may have faith in our families, faith in God, faith in our friends, our abilities, or our inner realizations. We may have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow, or that those in charge will make sure we are safe. We may have faith that if something is on the grocery shelf, that means somebody has made sure it is not harmful to our health. Some of our faithfulness is world-based, some is emotion-based, and some is spirituality-based. Some of our faithfulness is strong and directed toward what can truly be trusted, and some is as fragile and delicate as crystals of early morning frost formed on a cobweb under the porch awning in the face of a rising sun.

...more of this chapter is available in the book, "Secrets of Spiritual Happiness," by Sharon Janis.

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