Faith - Day 1

It’s silly and a little embarrassing.

I call it the feather principle. It means two things to me, but the closest word I can find to describe it is faith. Whenever I see a feather lying on the ground—and sometimes one will even blow into the house—it’s a reminder to me that I’m where I need to be right now and that everything is going as planned.I think I originally got the feather idea from a movie I watched a long time ago. Whenever something distressing happened to the main character, Forrest Gump, a feather would float through the air. It’s one of those things that stuck with me. It’s a symbol that I can calm down and trust where I am.I was discussing spirituality and faith with a friend. “It takes faith to believe in tomorrow. But I think it takes more faith to believe that I am where I’m meant to be in my life right now,” he said.It’s easy to have hopes and dreams for our future, to have plans. We all need those. They help direct our path. And having things to look forward to, even the little things, makes life fun.But having faith that on some far-off day our lives are going to be great and better—believing in tomorrow—doesn’t take nearly as much spiritual discipline as it does to believe in today.Sometimes I really don’t like some of the things I have to do or that are going on in my life. I tend to weigh myself down with mumbling and grumbling, balking, digging my heels in, obsessing, dreading, wondering whether I can trust God, and generally making things worse than they are. It’s not enough that I have to go through, endure, or do what I must.

I make the job three times as hard with my attitude.Feathers float. When I see one, it reminds me to lighten up.

Believing in destiny and floating through it are what feathers mean to me.Value: Faith is the value this week.From the book: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact