June 2, 2010 11:05 PM

Faith strikes again.

Don't lose faith. In the most dire of circumstances sometimes even the smallest of good news can help. Faith works in weird ways. Faith requires active patience. Faith. Takes. Time. You may not get everything you want (or faith has in store for you) at once, but eventually you will get it all.

Time. That's something else entirely. When we're young and timeless, time goes on and on without any regard for an end. As your life gets longer time starts to seem to travel more rapidly, less in your control. And yet we want everything now, fast, before anyone else. Why? Do we see life as only a few opportunities and if you miss them we have no other shot? Or is it just who we are as humans?

I see the path ahead of me as finite. I know that in a few months things will change and I will have to shift gears again. And that makes these next few months seem like the end. But in reality, it is one of many ends, one of many times when I will have to restart.

But the one constant in it all is faith. No matter how many times I must change there will always be faith by my side.

And so maybe I shouldn't look at these next few months as finite, but rather an opportunity to test my faith, to see what it's like for everything to be different than what I anticipated.

But I'm ready. You know why? Because I have faith. Because I am friends with faith, because I know faith better than I know myself.

It seems so simple, but it is so hard. Just believe. Just believe and anything can happen. Maybe what you want to happen won't, but faith wins all battles, and eventually it will win yours too.

Keep your head up. It's ok to be sad, but be sad for the sake of becoming happy in the future. Don't be stuck in doubt. Live, love, learn, hope, and have faith.

Easier said that done, but it isn't worth getting if you don't work for it.

I'll be here with you the entire way, because unlike this world, I will always be by your side.

Your friend,

Hope.