May 27, 2010 9:19 P.M.

A man once told me that in order to walk you must first run. I didn't understand him when he told me, but I understand now. When you take your first steps to run you take them in a belief of success. Walking may make you feel better, but running puts yourself out there. You put yourself fully in the hands of something greater than yourself. If man were to always walk where would we lie in our faith? Other than the fact that we would most certainly LIE in it (both literally and figuratively), our faith would merely be a crutch so as to not fall. But when you run in your faith you have to be willing to run the risk of falling. Because it is in the moments that we fall that we truly become stronger in our faith.

We lead lives in constant fear of falling when in reality every time we fall we are blessed with a stronger and more potent faith, one that fails only with the flailing steps we take when we walk. Who is it in your life that leads you in faith? Do you run in it, or is it just a crutch that helps your get through the hard times?

We must always remember that with faith comes hope, and with hope comes a dream of a new beginning full of hope everlasting. We only have hope inasmuch as we have faith. For it is in faith that we fully recognize the greatest love that we could ever have.

We all feel lost as one point but it is in the revival from the fall that we become again strengthened by the love of our faith. Whether you believe in men, or God, or love, we all need to believe in something and we all need to learn to run with our faith.

It is during these hardest times that we must rebound and come back stronger from before.

I know you are listening. I know she is listening. One day we will all be listening.

In love,

Hope.