In What Do You Have Faith?

In what, or in whom, do you have faith?

In how many "whats" or in how many "whoms" do you have faith?

A person lived to be 80 years old.  During this person's life many objects of faith came and went.  Mother, Father, god, doing homework accurately, the stock market, one or more weapons, dressing a certain way, one or more hairstyles, taking orders, resisting orders. . . the list was long.  If asked, "In What Do You Have Faith?" this person might have said, "Allah" or "God" or "Jesus" and let it go at that.

This person would have answered inaccurately.  I haven't even mentioned the effects of alcohol, the promise of drugs (including medicinal drugs), the power of love or hate, or avoiding stepping on a crack in order to NOT break his mother's back.

During any person's life time he or she venerates many objects of faith.  Sometimes he consciously gives up an object of faith.  I recall a friendly acquaintance who gave up on Jesus as the answer and bought into civil rights as the object of faith.  When that movement didn't produce quickly enough he sought his salvation in alcohol and drugs.  We lost track of each other. . . I don't know what other objects of faith he may have embraced as life continued for him.  Or did he die along the way stuck in the dead end of misery?

In what or whom to you have faith?  Do you have any faith that seems "ultimate" to you -- leading to the meaning of life, or salvation, or eternal rest?  Is it possible to have mixed an "ultimate" object of faith for a "transient" object of faith?  For instance, have you substituted an approach to investing that seems to be working for faith that will last into eternity?  Or, have you invested a faith in god for a sound approach to investing?

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