Sunday, September 18, 2011

faith unpacked.


Faith isn't believing in an insight that distorts reality. Faith isn't jumping off of a cliff edge and hoping that you've learned to fly before you hit rock bottom. Faith is having a dream to fly, envisioning a way to make it possible, designing a flying tool which is consistent with reality, understanding the boundaries of gravity, performing rigorous testing, gaining approval and credibility among other designers, waiting for the best weather and season to launch; it is confidence in your work and calling, it is a open mind to the possibility of failure, it is an ever present awareness that you can't fully predict the outcome, it is an unshakable sureness that the seeds you sow will bring forth harvest if left in the hands of a master gardener, it is trust and respect for the keeper of the fields that leads to a readiness to submit all identity that is submersed in creating something beautiful, it is this willingness to give all of one's passion that becomes the catalyst for a passion greater than any one individual, it is a unified desire to see a great harvest, which is a task made impossible if left to just one.