When You Face Fear, Have Faith

If a group of people convened for the purpose of reestablishing the United States (aka rewriting the Declaration of Independence) I bet that most of the principles would be about the same.  The language would reflect modern writing style, but generally the concepts of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, equality, freedom of speech and more would remain.  One difference though, I suspect, and I admit this is only suspicion, is that the new document would be written with a subtext of fear of the uncertain rather than an abiding faith in the possibility.  It seems to me that the influx of massive and persistent media through the advent of all sorts of technological gadgets (all of which I am hooked on) has evoked in our collective whole a fear of the possibility, better yet a fear of the very, very unlikely. Nevertheless the fear of possibilities triumphs over faith in what is likely to occur. As a nation we fret over pandemics, disease, terror, natural disaster and more on a daily if not hourly basis.  We find the metaphoric needle in the mountainous haystack and cling to that as likely or even normal and think of all sorts of ways to keep it from happening to us.

Our founding fathers were really smart men.  There’s little doubt about that.  I bet they were men of faith too.  Define faith however you want…from belief in the doctrines of a religion to confidence in the prospect of what the future holds.  No matter, I think we need to live with less fear and more faith.